Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Train Orient-Express

Train Orient-Express has always been a coated cloak of mystery and intrigue, as a fictional or real. The most famous novel is a novel by Agatha Christie "Murder in the Orient Express", in which the detective Erkyul Poirot investigates the murder of a passenger. Hollywood movies, with the participation of Albert Finney as Poirot was partly filmed in the same train, and partly - in the exact copies of cars, restored in Stages. Participate in the six-film, most recently, the train Venice Simplon-Orient-Express helped Kruelle de Ville to the flight to Paris in the movie "102 dalmatintsa. This train has been written a large number of books and even a piece of music entitled "Orient-Express Variations" ( "Variations on a Theme by Orient Express").

However, the legendary train was rescued by entrepreneur and enthusiast James B. Sherwood. In 1977, he bought two cars of the train at auction Sotheby's in Monte Carlo. Over the next few years 16 million dollars have been spent on the discovery of the location, purchase and restoration of some 35 vintage (antique) sleeping carriages, wagons and carriages pulmanovskih-restaurants. May 25, 1982 was the revival of the legend, when the train Venice Simplon-Orient-Express has committed his first break after a long flight from London to Venice.Today, sparkling in the sun wagons Venice Simplon-Orient-Express continues to carry passengers across Europe in an elegant atmosphere trains, each delivering incomparable pleasure from one of the most romantic trips in the world.

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