Orient Express

noun

1. an express passenger train in service between Paris and Istanbul from 1883 until 1977, using various routes. Some or parts of the routes continue to be served by regular service and by rail tours.

Example Sentences

"I always fancied doing something in real time, the technical challenge of it. If there was an attack on the rail network, could we then localise it on one train? And then suddenly we have a modern Murder on the Orient Express and a bit of Speed... and we make it completely up-to-date," he explains.

From BBC

“When you’re doing Tom on the train from Cherbourg to Naples, and you pull up David Seymour’s photograph of Ingrid Bergman going from Naples to Cannes on the Orient Express, you know exactly what that train car looks like in black and white.”

From Los Angeles Times

The origins of the Orient Express, Trans-Siberian Railway, Hogwarts Express and Thomas The Tank Engine can be traced back to Trevithick's modest locomotive that is regarded by experts as the world's first railway engine.

From BBC

Edmonds Driftwood Players sold out its fall 2023 run of “Murder on the Orient Express,” adapted by playwright Ken Ludwig from Agatha Christie’s original.

From Seattle Times

“Clue” was the third most-produced play of 2022, and the 2019 most-produced list included Ludwig’s adaptation of “Orient Express.”

From Seattle Times