Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
Georges Nagelmackers establishes at Liège the company that becomes the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, after seeing Pullman's night trains in the United States in 1867–68. The company will own carriages and staff but no track, contracting with national railways to attach its stock to their trains — the arrangement that makes an international luxury service possible in a Europe of incompatible national railway administrations.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Georges Nagelmackers · person · Belgium · not located
- Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits · company · Belgium · not located
- The through sleeping car · technology · not located
Evidence
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Nagelmackers, Georges — Connaître la Wallonie
Supports Nagelmackers' birth at Liège on 25 June 1845, his death at Villepreux on 10 August 1905, his 1867–68 American journey and the founding of the Wagons-Lits company at Liège on 1 October 1872. V55 verification basis: the portal's dated entry and its founding-date headline were carried in attributed search results; the page was not fetched.
Wallonia (Connaître la Wallonie heritage portal) · Verified
https://connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be/fr/wallons-marquants/dictionnaire/nagelmackers-georges
La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits — dossier
Supports the founding of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on 1 October 1872 and its sleeping-car operating model. V55 verification basis: the museum dossier appeared in search with its founding date in the document title; the PDF was not retrieved and its contents were not read.
Train World, Brussels (SNCB railway museum) · Partly verified
trainworld.be, CIWL dossier PDF, "Création : 1 octobre 1872"
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