Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
Seventeen original 1920s Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits carriages, rediscovered in 2015 and acquired in 2022, are under restoration in France for a train to be operated under the Orient Express name. Reporting from January 2026 gives the target as 2027, having previously indicated 2026. This is a declared commercial plan and a target date, not a prediction; as of August 2026 the train has not entered service.
Planned — a programme target or declared plan, from a source that declared it. Never a prediction.
Subjects
- Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits · company · Belgium · not located
- Orient Express · route · Western Europe to the Bosphorus · not located
Evidence
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Inside the revamped Orient Express train scheduled for 2027
Reports that seventeen original 1920s Wagons-Lits carriages rediscovered in 2015 and acquired in 2022 are under restoration in France, with the relaunch target moved from 2026 to 2027. V55 verification basis: a January 2026 travel-trade report carried in an attributed search result; not fetched, and the target date is a commercial plan that has already slipped once.
Globetrender · 2026-01-20 · Partly verified
https://globetrender.com/2026/01/20/inside-orient-express-train-2027/
Recorded on Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
- Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège
- The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est
- First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail
- The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route
- The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul
- The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run
- The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable
- Relaunch of an Orient Express train using rediscovered 1920s carriages
Related
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- The name Orient Express leaves the European timetable · 2009-12-12
- The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express makes its inaugural run · 1982-05-25
- The last Direct Orient Express leaves Paris for Istanbul · 1977-05-19
- The Simplon Orient Express takes the southern route · 1919-04-11
- First through Paris–Constantinople run entirely by rail · 1889-06-01
- The first Express d'Orient leaves the Gare de l'Est · 1883-10-04
- Nagelmackers founds the sleeping-car company at Liège · 1872-10-01