The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
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A reconstituted service runs for the first time from Paris across Switzerland through the Simplon Tunnel to Milan, and from there to Venice, Trieste and Belgrade; through running to Istanbul follows in 1920. The alignment changed for political reasons, not engineering ones — the post-war settlement made the old Munich–Vienna corridor unavailable — and the tunnel that had been bored for Swiss-Italian traffic became the spine of the most famous train in Europe.
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- Orient Expressconcerns
- Simplon Tunnelconcerns
- Parisconcerns
- The Balkansconcerns
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