It ran from 1883 to 2009 and is not to be confused with the Venice-Simplon Orient Express train service, which continues to run.

In 1982, the Venice-Simplon Orient Express was established as a private venture, running restored 1920s and 1930s carriages from London to Venice.

* Whicker's World-Aboard The Orient Express: Travel journalist Alan Whicker joined the inaugural service of the Venice-Simplon Orient Express to Venice in 1982, interviewing invited guests and celebrities along the way.

DRS won the prestigious Northern Belle contract in early 2011, hauling dining trains and excursions for one of the British arms of Venice-Simplon Orient Express.

Carriages from the classic Venice-Simplon Orient Express train have been used on some of these services.

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* Venice-Simplon Orient Express, a privately-run passenger train service

In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

This is how Agatha Christie describes Poirot in The Murder on the Orient Express in the initial pages:

As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Express.

It could be suggested that in Murder on the Orient Express Poirot allows the murderers to escape justice as well, after he discovers that twelve different people stabbed the victim – Mr. Ratchett – in his sleep.

In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ).

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express.

* Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001 ( TV )

* Heini Göbel, ( 1954 ; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express )

He established the first Ottoman railroad network and Sirkeci Train Station in Istanbul, terminus of the Orient Express.

The standard of the included ' clue ' material varies from scenario to scenario, but reached its zenith in the original boxed versions of the Masks of Nyarlathotep and Horror on the Orient Express campaigns.

Inside these one could find matchbooks and business cards apparently defaced by non-player characters, newspaper cuttings and ( in the case of Orient Express ) period passports to which players could attach their photographs, bringing a Live Action Role Playing feel to a tabletop game.

Christie's novels include, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

* 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.

* Murder on the Orient Express ( 2001 )

* 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

His film career also includes such films as Marnie, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Hunt for Red October, Highlander, Murder on the Orient Express, Dragonheart, and The Rock.

Likewise, most Agatha Christie books ( Murder on the Orient Express and And Then There Were None being the exceptions ) cause Cardassians great difficulty, as, whilst the idea that a high-ranking person is killed in mysterious circumstances appeals, they cannot understand why only one person is guilty.

The station is the terminus and starting point of the Venice Simplon Orient Express from or to London Victoria and Paris.

* January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer ( Murder On The Orient Express ) ( b. 1890 )

** The Orient Express begins operation.

Thereafter with the opening of the Gotthard ( 1881 ) and Simplon ( 1906 ) railway tunnels, Milan became the major South European rail focus for business and passenger movements e. g. the Simplon Orient Express.

A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

During this period, one of his high-profile film roles was as Agatha Christie's Belgian master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express.

Indiana travels to Venice, takes the Orient Express to Istanbul, and continues by train to Petra, where he meets Sallah and reunites with his father.

Using the Orient Express as a plot device came from two sources: Fleming had returned from the Istanbul conference in 1955 on the train, but found the experience drab, partly because there was no restaurant car.

The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.

The train was officially renamed Orient Express in 1891.

Amtrak locomotives pull an American Orient Express train out of Columbus, Georgia, in 2009.

In North America, the American Orient Express, formerly the American European Express, operated several train sets in charter service between 1989 and 2008.

* The Orient Express appeared as a technologically advanced ( for its time ) train in the book Behemoth, by Scott Westerfeld.

The two board the Orient Express in Paris ; the train takes them to Turkey ( though they disembark briefly at the Milan stop ).

* In one episode of the British cartoon series Dangermouse, called " Dangermouse on the Orient Express " ( a parody of Murder on the Orient Express ), Dangermouse and Penfold travel on the train on their way back to London from Venice.

* The Jean Michel Jarre album The Concerts in China has a track entitled " Orient Express " as track 1 of disc 2, though the relation to the train is unknown.

* The role-playing game Call of Cthulhu RPG used the train for one of its more famous campaigns, Horror on the Orient Express.

Travelers may again take the Orient Express train from Paris to its terminus in the European part of Istanbul, a route established in the early 20th century.

On July 22, 2008, shortly after the crash in Phuket which killed 89 people, and after the internet publication of illegally excessive work hours and check fraud Orient Thai and its subsidiaries were ordered to suspend service for 56 days due to failure to train, failure to have a safety program and failure to supervise safe flight, check ride fraud and breaking the law at Orient Thai and One-Two-GO.

One of the porters in the train refer to her as " having made more journeys on the Orient Express " than the porter himself.

Milos and his comrades, Vesna, Ivo and Salko board the Orient Express to get the weapons from Munich and then hijack the train through Austria into Serbia.

* October 4 – The first ever Express d ' Orient passenger train service leaves Paris for Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) in the Ottoman Empire ( Turkey ), by way of Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Giurgiu, then, with passengers crossing the Danube by boat, a second train from Rustchuk to Varna, and from there by boat Espero to Constantinople.

The train is officially renamed Orient Express in 1891.

* October 10 – Departure ' Train Éclair de luxe ', the test train for the Express d ' Orient, the later Orient Express, from Paris ( Gare de Strasbourg ) to Wien ( return arrival at Paris on October 14 ).

* May 9 – The last Paris-Istanbul train with the name Orient Express makes its final run.