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updated the list of Orient Express service routes, added a mention that service was interrupted during both world wars, added a link to Wikivoyage's itinerary for those adventurous enough to duplicate the trip in the 2020s
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A variety of rail services have used the name "'''Orient Express'''"
* ''Orient Express'' (1883-1962) from Paris through Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Bucharest to Istanbul. A fragment of this route from Paris to Budapest was revived in 1977, but was cut back to Paris-Vienna (2001) and later Strasburg-Vienna (2007) before disappearing completely in 2009. Initially this route was chosen over the shorter southern route taken by the ''Simplon Orient Express'' below because of an Austro-Hungarian legistation of that time which required all international trains crossing the Austrian territory (which included a short section of the southern route around Trieste, then) to make a stop at the capital city, Vienna, rendering the southern route infeasible until the collapse of the empire.
* The ''Simplon Orient Express'' (1919-1962) aka ''Direct Orient Express'' (1962-1977) from Paris through Lausanne, Milan, Venice, Belgrade and Sofia to Istanbul was an alternate service which ran in parallel to the main ''Orient Express'' for many years, crossing into Italy at the Simplon Pass tunnel. A fragment of this journey was revived (1982-2005) as the ''Venice Simplon Orient Express'' from Calais and Paris through Lausanne and Milan to Venice, but that train did not continue onward to Istanbul.
* An ''Arlberg Orient Express'' (1930-1962) ran as a third route from London-Calais through Paris, Zürich, Innsbruck, Vienna and Budapest, before either terminating in Bucharest or going through Belgrade to terminate in Athens. These runs never did go to Istanbul; their access to the United Kingdom was, by necessity, a ferry crossing in this era.
All Orient Express routes were interrupted by [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].
The route was famed for its luxury sleeping and dining cars, having a general air of opulence about it.
[http://www.seat61.com/OrientExpress.htm For more information, see here.] To take the journey yourself, which in the 21st century will require travelling on multiple trains, see [https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Orient_Express Wikivoyage's modern itinerary].
The examples below feature the Orient Express in fiction, and fictional railway services clearly inspired by it.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''Romance on the Orient Express'': a 1985 TV movie with Cheryl Ladd.
* In the 2004 version of ''[[Around the World In 80 Days]]'', Mr. Fogg rides aboard the train to Istanbul.
* ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' (and the original novel too), featuring a legendary fight scene between Bond and Red Grant in a compartment, still used to screen test potential Bonds.
== Literature ==
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* The [[Solar Pons]] story ''The Adventure of the Orient Express''.
* In the [[Dieselpunk]] story ''[[Leviathan (novel)|Leviathan]]'', the Orient Express appears as a heavily armed high-tech train.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "Emergence": the train appears on the Enterprise's holodeck.
* In the British soap opera ''[[Eastenders]]'', in 1986, characters Den and Angie Watts spent their honeymoon on the train.
== Music ==
* "Orient Express" is the title of a piece of music [[Jean Michel Jarre]] composed for his 1981 ''Concerts In China''. The video clip features footage of the classic train.
== Tabletop Games ==
* The role-playing game ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' used the train for one its more famous scenarios.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[The Last Express]]'', an epic adventure game by [[Prince of Persia|Jordan Mechner]] is about the fictionalized final trip of the Orient Express in the weeks leading up to WWI.
== Western Animation ==
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