According to the below link, today is the last run of the Orient Express, from Paris to Instanbul. I always had the ambition of taking that route after the wife retires. Saddness, as another historic passenger train bites the dust.
Orient Express demise
JimC.
The Paris-Istanbul Orient Express has not run in decades. What the writer is bemoaning is the discontinuance of the final remnant of the Orient Express, which was a Strasbourg-Vienna overnight run. The privately operated Venice-Simplon Orient Express is still running.
Indeed. The Venice-Simplon OE is alive and doing well. It is a luxury train and the discontinued remnant just an ordinary affair it seems.
I think the original information was provided by a travel bureau. [swg]