Chemins de fer Orientaux
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The Chemins de fer Orientaux was an Ottoman railway company operating in Rumelia and later European Turkey, from 1870 to 1937. The CO was one of the five pioneer railways in the Ottoman Empire and bui
Karaağaç railway station, built in 1873 by the CO, but no longer used.
Poster from 1898
Locomotive 407 from the CO
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Orient Express
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The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits that operated until 2009. The train traveled the l
Chemins de fer Orientaux
…five pioneer railways in the Ottoman Empire and built the main trunk line in the Balkans. Between 1889 and 1937, the railway hosted the world-famous Orient Express. The railway was charted in 1870 to build a line from Istanbul to Vienna. Because of many political problems in the Balkans, construction started and…
Orient Express dining car from 1911
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The first Orient Express in 1883
Poster advertising the winter 1888–1889 timetable