Orient Express

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The Orient Express is a legendary long-distance luxury passenger train service that historically connected Western and Eastern Europe and became famous through its appearances in literature and film.

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Label Occurrences
Orient Express canonical 17

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Predicate Object
instanceOf long-distance train
luxury passenger train service
named train
countryServed Austria
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Romania
Switzerland
Turkey
culturalSignificance icon of the golden age of railways
symbol of luxury rail travel in Europe
featuredIn Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
numerous films and television adaptations
various detective and spy novels
featuredInAuthor Agatha Christie
featuredInWorkType novel
hasTheme international intrigue
romanticized train travel
historicalPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
inception 1883
notableFeature Art Deco interiors
fine dining on board
luxurious sleeping cars
notableFor association with espionage during wartime
crossing multiple European borders
influence on popular culture depictions of trains
operator Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits
originalEndStation Constantinople (probable)
surface form: Constantinople

Istanbul
originalStartStation Gare de l'Est
surface form: Paris Gare de l'Est
route Paris–Bucharest
Paris–Budapest
Paris–Istanbul
Paris–Vienna
serviceType dining car service
international rail service
sleeper train
status historical train service
usedRollingStock Wagons-Lits restaurant cars
Pullman sleeping car
surface form: Wagons-Lits sleeping cars

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From Russia, with Love settingLocation Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express setOn Orient Express
Maia Morgenstern notableWork Orient Express
Spinning Dragons previousAttraction Orient Express
Spinning Dragons replaced Orient Express
Samuel Ratchett placeOfDeath Orient Express
Princess Dragomiroff associatedWith Orient Express
Mary Debenham travelsOn Orient Express
Colonel Arbuthnot associatedWith Orient Express
Hector MacQueen associatedWith Orient Express
Count Andrenyi modeOfTransportation Orient Express
Count Andrenyi settingOfActivity Orient Express
Countess Andrenyi settingOfActivity Orient Express
Mrs. Hubbard associatedWith Orient Express
Murder in the Calais Coach setting Orient Express