"Esplanade Zagreb Hotel The Esplanade Zagreb Hotel is a historic luxury hotel in Zagreb, Croatia. It was built in 1925 to provide accommodation for passengers of the famous Orient Express train, which traveled between Paris and Istanbul. In 1917, an international tender was announced in which a number of prominent architects participated, including the famous Austrian architect Adolf Loos, who however was not awarded the contract. The winner was Germany's, Otto Rehnig, whose original plans were modified by the Zagreb architect Dionis Sunko. Today, most people consider Sunko to have been the architect of this building from the Belle Epoque"
"train to Varna. They then completed their journey to Constantinople by ferry. In 1885, another route began operations, this time reaching Istanbul via rail from Vienna to Belgrade and Niš, carriage to Plovdiv, and rail again to Istanbul. In 1889, the train's eastern terminus became Varna in Bulgaria, where passengers could take a ship to Constantinople. On June 1, 1889, the first direct train to Istanbul left Paris (Gare de l'Est). Istanbul remained its easternmost stop until May 19, 1977. The eastern terminus was the Sirkeci Terminal by the Golden Horn. Ferry service from piers next to the terminal would"
"Internationale des Wagons-Lits"" (CIWL). Stanislas (train) Stanislas was an express train that linked Paris and Strasbourg in France. Introduced in 1971, it was operated by the ""Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français"" (SNCF). The train was named after Stanisław I Leszczyński (French: ""Stanislas Leszczynski""), King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a first-class-only Trans Europ Express (TEE) until 1982, and then a two-class ""Rapide"" until its discontinuance in about 1988. The ""Stanislas""'s route was the long Paris–Strasbourg railway, with just the following stops: The ""Stanislas"" was introduced on 26 September"
"L'Oiseau Bleu (train) L'Oiseau Bleu (or the Oiseau Bleu) was an international express train linking Antwerp with Paris. The train was named after the play ""L'Oiseau Bleu"" as a tribute to its author, the Belgian Nobel prize laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. The ""Oiseau Bleu"" started as a luxury train operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits as their second Pullman service between Belgium and France. Timetable of 1929: Due to good loading figures the service was extended to Amsterdam on 15 May 1935, making the ""Oiseau Bleu"" the ""mirror"" of the ""Étoile du Nord"". The outbreak of World War II interrupted"
"Stanislas (train) Stanislas was an express train that linked Paris and Strasbourg in France. Introduced in 1971, it was operated by the ""Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français"" (SNCF). The train was named after Stanisław I Leszczyński (French: ""Stanislas Leszczynski""), King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a first-class-only Trans Europ Express (TEE) until 1982, and then a two-class ""Rapide"" until its discontinuance in about 1988. The ""Stanislas""'s route was the long Paris–Strasbourg railway, with just the following stops: The ""Stanislas"" was introduced on 26 September 1971, to complement an"
"2011, but continued interest from passengers and discussion on social media led to the short lived re-introduction of the train in 2012. Palatino Express The Palatino Express or Rome Express is a historic express train operating between Paris, France, and Rome, Italy, since 1890. Under the name ""Rome Express"" the pre-war service operated daily until interrupted by the Second World War. The British film ""Rome Express"" (1932) derived its title and its setting from the train. The service was resumed after the war, and has operated with the name ""Palatino Express"" since 1969. The original ""Rome Express"" route operated from"
"Le Train Bleu The Calais-Mediterranée Express was a luxury French night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera in the two decades before World War II. It was colloquially referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal name after World War II) and the Blue Train in English because of its dark blue sleeping cars. In December 1883 the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) created its second luxury train after the Orient Express introduced in June"
"Orient Express The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variations. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name became synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are Paris and Constantinople (Istanbul), the original endpoints of the timetabled service. The Orient Express was a showcase of luxury and comfort"
"Parsifal (train) The Parsifal was an express train that linked Paris with Dortmund in Germany and later Cologne. The train was named after Wagner's opera inspired by the legendary knight Percival. The ""Parsifal"" was launched on 3 October 1957 as second TEE-service between Paris and the Ruhr. The ""Parsifal"" was scheduled as the ""mirror"" of the ""Paris-Ruhr"". While the ""Paris-Ruhr"" started westbound in the morning and eastbound in the evening, the ""Parsifal"" started eastbound in the morning and returned to Paris in the evening. Initially French RGP-825 trainsets were used. On 29 May 1960 the ""Parsifal"" was extended to Hamburg."
"Palatino Express The Palatino Express or Rome Express is a historic express train operating between Paris, France, and Rome, Italy, since 1890. Under the name ""Rome Express"" the pre-war service operated daily until interrupted by the Second World War. The British film ""Rome Express"" (1932) derived its title and its setting from the train. The service was resumed after the war, and has operated with the name ""Palatino Express"" since 1969. The original ""Rome Express"" route operated from Calais-Maritime, a coastal railway station providing a direct connection between cross-channel ferries from England and the French railway network, via Paris, Aix-les-Bains,"
"at the end of 2018. Istanbul suburban The Istanbul suburban railway, locally referred to as B1 (), was an important rail line in İstanbul, Turkey. It was operated by the Turkish State Railways and was one of Istanbul's two commuter rail lines (the other being the Haydarpaşa suburban). Carrying an average of 22,200 passengers daily, it was the second-busiest commuter railway in Turkey, after the Haydarpaşa suburban. The İstanbul Commuter Railway is a historical line, being the first rail line to be electrified and being the first commuter railway in Turkey. Since it opened on December 4, 1955, the E8000"
"three train-pairs; the others were EC ""Molière"" and EC ""Gustave Eiffel"", providing a morning, afternoon and evening EuroCity service in both directions. However, the ""Gustave Eiffel"" soon lost its EC status, after only one year. On 14 December 1997 the ""Parsifal"" was replaced by the Paris – Cologne Thalys service. Parsifal (train) The Parsifal was an express train that linked Paris with Dortmund in Germany and later Cologne. The train was named after Wagner's opera inspired by the legendary knight Percival. The ""Parsifal"" was launched on 3 October 1957 as second TEE-service between Paris and the Ruhr. The ""Parsifal"" was"
"the Istanbul-Eskişehir extension of the Istanbul-Ankara high-speed railway. Boğaziçi Express The Boğaziçi Express () was a named passenger train operated between Istanbul and Ankara until 2012, when it was shortened between Arifiye and Ankara then later Arifiye to Eskişehir. The train was discontinued on 24 July 2014 and replaced by high-speed YHT trains. Despite having ""Express"" in its name, the train served as many local stations between Arifiye and Ankara and was popular among students due to its low fare. The Boğaziçi Express made its inaugural run from Haydarpaşa Terminal in Istanbul to Ankara station in Ankara on 1 June"
"Boğaziçi Express The Boğaziçi Express () was a named passenger train operated between Istanbul and Ankara until 2012, when it was shortened between Arifiye and Ankara then later Arifiye to Eskişehir. The train was discontinued on 24 July 2014 and replaced by high-speed YHT trains. Despite having ""Express"" in its name, the train served as many local stations between Arifiye and Ankara and was popular among students due to its low fare. The Boğaziçi Express made its inaugural run from Haydarpaşa Terminal in Istanbul to Ankara station in Ankara on 1 June 1968 with brand new railcars from CIWL as"
"TGV from Paris, and was attached at Karlsruhe to the overnight sleeper service from Amsterdam to Vienna. On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a ""victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines"". The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture by Belmond using original CIWL carriages from the 1920s and 1930s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul. In 1882, Georges Nagelmackers, a Belgian banker's son, invited guests to a railway trip of on"
"viable and aspirational mode of transport for the individual traveller. ""Le Train Bleu"" (lit. ""the blue train""), officially the Calais-Méditerranée Express, was a luxury French night express train which carried wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera from 1922 until 1938. It was colloquially referred to as ""le train bleu"" in French and the Blue Train in English because of its dark blue sleeping cars, and became formally known as ""Le Train Bleu"" after World War II. It was created by a private French railroad company, the Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la"
"Friendship Express The Friendship Express (, , ""Exprés Filías""), was an international InterCity train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and TrainOSE S.A. from July 2005 to February 2011, linking Istanbul's Sirkeci Terminal, Turkey and Thessaloniki, Greece. Eastbound trains (service 444/81021) departed daily at 19:48 from Thessaloniki arriving to Istanbul at 08:07. Westbound trains (service 81022/445) departed at 20:30 from Istanbul, arriving to Thessaloniki at 09:33. There were two trains on this service, one provided by TrainOSE and the other by TCDD. TrainOSE used OSE former SNCF type T2 sleeping cars while TCDD used TVS2000 type cars. The"
"Bosphorus Express The Bosphorus Express, also known as the Trans Balkan Express (), is an international passenger train running between Istanbul, Turkey and Bucharest, Romania. It runs together with the Istanbul-Sofia Express until Dimitrovgrad upon entering Bulgaria, where the latter continues to Sofia. The train is jointly operated by three national railways: the TCDD Taşımacılık, the Bulgarian State Railways, and the Romanian State Railways. The train serves important cities like Istanbul, Edirne, Russe and Bucharest. The train is pulled by a variety of locomotives in each country. Today the train consists of 3-4 cars usually mixed from the three railways."
"Istanbul nostalgic tramways The Istanbul nostalgic tramways are two heritage tramlines in the city of Istanbul, Turkey. The city has two completely separate heritage tram systems, one on the European side (the Taksim-Tünel Nostalgia Tramway, aka. T2 line), the other on the Asian side (T3 line, aka. the Kadıköy-Moda Nostalgia Tramway). Istanbul, the former capital of Turkey, once had a large tramway network on both the Asian and European sides. These started as horse trams but gradually changed to electric. Many routes were built step by step, and the network reached its greatest extent in 1956 with 108 million passengers"
"Taurus Express The Taurus Express () is an overnight train operating between Eskişehir and Adana. In the past it was a premier passenger train operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits between İstanbul and Baghdad. After 1972, passengers could travel down to Basra via connection to the Express 2 made at Baghdad Central Station. However, service was suspended in 2003, due to the outbreak of war in Iraq. In 2012, the State Railways renewed service between Eskişehir and Adana and will once again service İstanbul when track work in the city is complete. There is a chance that the train may"
"Istanbul suburban The Istanbul suburban railway, locally referred to as B1 (), was an important rail line in İstanbul, Turkey. It was operated by the Turkish State Railways and was one of Istanbul's two commuter rail lines (the other being the Haydarpaşa suburban). Carrying an average of 22,200 passengers daily, it was the second-busiest commuter railway in Turkey, after the Haydarpaşa suburban. The İstanbul Commuter Railway is a historical line, being the first rail line to be electrified and being the first commuter railway in Turkey. Since it opened on December 4, 1955, the E8000 series have been in operation."
"Chemins de fer Orientaux The Chemins de fer Orientaux (English: ""Oriental Railway""; Turkish: ""Rumeli Demiryolu"" or ""İstanbul-Viyana Demiryolu"") (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman railway company operating in Rumelia (the European part of the Ottoman Empire, corresponding to the Balkan peninsula) and later European Turkey, from 1870 to 1937. The CO was one of the 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"
"fois"" (lit. ""The Blue Train Stops 13 times""), appeared on the French channel ORTF between October 8, 1965, and March 11, 1966. It featured one mystery episode for each of the thirteen stops of the Train Bleu between Paris and Menton, based on short stories by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Le Train Bleu The Calais-Mediterranée Express was a luxury French night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera in the two decades before World War II. It was colloquially"
"Accor maintains its interest in the railway service sector of Wagon Lits. From 1883, the Orient Express operated between Paris and Istanbul in three nights and three times per week in each direction. The Orient Express deployed the first sleeping and dining cars for long-distance train travel in Europe. In 2003, the company restored seven cars of the famous ""Pullman Orient Express"" and made it available for tourist events. After 2007, the night sleeper service named Orient Express only operated between Strasbourg and Vienna. Made obsolete by Europe's high-speed rail network, the Orient Express made its last run on 14"
"Le Mistral (train) Le Mistral, or the Mistral, was an express train between Paris and Nice in France. Introduced in 1950, it was operated by the ""Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français"" (""French National Railway Corporation"") (SNCF), and was regarded as the company's flagship train. The train was named after the Mistral, a strong, cold and usually dry regional wind blowing from north or northwestern France to the coast of the Mediterranean around the Camargue region. The ""Mistral"" began its existence in 1950 as a mostly steam locomotive-hauled ""Rapide"" (express train) between Paris-Gare de Lyon and Marseille-Saint-Charles. Two years"
"The most famous of these would be the Bosphorus train ferry in İstanbul. This ferry connects Haydarpaşa, on the Asian side, with Sirkeci, on the European side. ""Demiryolu"" and ""Demiryolu II"" are the two ferries that operate on the route and are owned by TCDD. By starting the project of Marmaray, TCDD ended the Bosphorus train ferry and announced an alternative ferry for the freight trains passing from Europe to Asia or vice versa: Tekirdağ-Derince Ferry. It's a private ferry named Erdemir working as a subcontractor of TCDD. Ferry did trials in 2012, and had started regular transportation at the"
"than those in Western Europe. In Paris there was a connecting service to the ""Sud Express"" (Southern Express) to Lisbon. This train service enabled people to travel across Europe in what was, by the standards of the time, a very fast and comfortable manner. After World War I the train was diverted to Warsaw instead to Saint Petersburg. After World War II the ""iron curtain"" and air travel caused the end to this famous train. Since World War II the name ""Nord Express"" has been used for the initially luxury and since 1951 ordinary night train between Paris and Copenhagen."
"the undertaking, von Siemens formed the Ottoman Anatolian Railway (CFOA) on 4 October 1888 to build and operate the railway for 99 years. The CFOA started construction further from Izmit in May 1889 and purchased the Istanbul-Izmit railway for 6 million CHF. Istanbul–Ankara railway The Istanbul–Ankara railway () is a long electrified railway in Turkey. The line connects Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, to the capital and second largest city, Ankara; making it one the busiest railways in the country in terms of passenger and freight rail traffic. The railway runs parallel to the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway and in several sections,"
"of the CFOA due to the company being headquartered in Switzerland, a neutral country in the war. On March 3, 1924 the Chemins de fer d'Anatolie Baghdad was created to operate CFOA lines until the Turkish government nationalized the line. The CFOA was absorbed completely by the CFAB, later TCDD on June 1, 1927. The CFOA operated many passenger trains on their lines. Their main line was between İstanbul and İzmit. The CFOA also operated the first passenger train between İstanbul and Ankara; this was a daily train that entered service in 1892. The most common steam locomotives for passenger"
"Zürich to Istanbul. In 1983 the 100th anniversary of the Orient-Express was celebrated by a trip of this train from Paris to Istanbul, and in 1988 it was run to Hong Kong via the Soviet Union and China. From there it was transferred by ferry to Japan, and used there for some excursions after regauging. After the failure of the American European Express (see below) Intraflug became bankrupt, and the carriages were taken over by the Reisebüro Mittelthurgau. The sleeping cars and some other coaches (Pullmans, dining cars, luggage vans) were transferred to Russia and used between Moscow and the"
"Gül Train Gül Train (Formerly ECO Train) () is an international freight train service between Islamabad, Pakistan and Istanbul, Turkey via Tehran, Iran. The train named after Turkish President Abdullah Gül and was launched on 14 August 2009 on trial basis. It is an important project of Economic Cooperation Organization. The Gül Train connecting Islamabad, Tehran and Istanbul by covering 6,500 kilometer or 4,040 mile in 16 days. There is a break-of-gauge between Iran Railways, Standard gauge and Pakistan Railways, Broad gauge at Zahedan. A container terminal is proposed in Zahedan for transshipment of containers from Standard gauge to Broad"
"was given to a train service between the Hook of Holland and Istanbul. With a connecting London and North Eastern Railway service from London Liverpool Street to boat train at Harwich, the journey time from London to Constantinople was 70 hours and 8 minutes. In 1935, the service was accelerated and three hours was cut from the schedule. In May 1955 a new Balkan Express was launched from Vienna via Graz and Belgrade (avoiding Bulgaria) to Athens and Istanbul. The current Balkan Express between İstanbul and Belgrade, calling at Edirne, Plovdiv and Sofia was launched in 1971. Balkan Express (train)"
"Balkan Express (train) The Balkan Express is an overnight train operating between İstanbul and Belgrade, calling at Edirne, Plovdiv and Sofia. The train connects with the ""Bosphorus Express"" at Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria and continues to İstanbul. The Balkan Express was launched on 1 January 1916 as a sleeping car service between Berlin and Istanbul. The twice weekly service had a schedule of 58 hours for the , and it ran through Dresden, Vienna, Belgrade and Sofia. Departures were from Berlin on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and Istanbul on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The train was discontinued in October 1918. From 1927 the name"