List of Named Wagons-Lits Expresses
The following are a list of named CIWL expresses in Chronological order as well as their primary routes. Where the name served multiple destinations over the years (such as the Nord Express), the...
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The Night Ferry
For more information on the Night Ferry Service please follow the link to The Night Ferry Book published by IRPS in 2011. This bilingual book contains a lot more detail and firsthand accounts. Night...
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The Orient Express
The most famous of all the CIWL trains and also its pioneer long distance international service, was the Orient Express. Commencing in 1883 it ran between Paris and Giurgiu and then in 1888 between...
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The Golden Arrow (Fléche D'or)
Along with the Blue Train, the Golden Arrow was probably the most recognisable CIWL train in the UK during the 1930's. The glamorous 'First Class Only', Pullman Golden Arrow service began running...
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From the beginning of the century the CIWL had carried the wealthy and famous from Britain to the French Riviera for the Winter season. It originally started with the Calais-Nice-Rome Express and later...
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The Sud Express
From 1887, the Sud Express ran from Paris to the Spanish border, where passengers would transfer to the Spanish and Portuguese Sudstock for the rest of their journey to Madrid and Lisbon. The original...
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The Nord Express started in 1896 running from Paris to St Petersburg. In the train’s original conception passengers could travel from St Petersburg to Paris, and then onward on CIWL’s Sud Express to...
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