The Orient
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The Orient Express it wasn’t, but every meal hit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
The Orient Express was a passenger train service originally running from Paris to which other terminal city?
From Slate • Sep. 13, 2023
The Orient Express — officially called the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express — has been rolling across Europe for 38 years, before recently being sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020
“If you’re casting them for the right reasons, then a big name is brilliant,” says Barrett, who got Kenneth Branagh to narrate Murder On The Orient Express.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019
The Orient Express had started on its three-days’ journey across Europe.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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