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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: 1880 in rail transport, 1881 in rail transport, 1882 in rail transport, 1883 in rail transport, 1884 in rail transport, 1885 in rail transport, 1886 in rail transport, 1887 in rail transport, 1888 in rail transport, 1889 in rail transport, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, Orient Express, 2-8-2, Overland Route, Penistone rail accidents, The Overland, Central Railroad & Banking Co. of Ga. v. Pettus, Railroad Commission Cases, Winona & St. Peter R. Co. v. Barney, Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886, Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, Cheap Trains Act 1883, Regulation of Railways Act 1889, 4-10-0. Excerpt: The Orient Express was the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. It ran from 1883 to 2009 and is not to be confused with the Venice-Simplon Orient Express train service, which continues to run. The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variants thereof. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are Paris and Constantinople, the original endpoints of the timetabled service. In 1977, the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul. Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to Vienna, ran for the very last time from Paris on Friday, June 8, 2007. After this, the route, still called the "Orient Express", was shortened to start from Strasbourg instead, occasioned by the inauguration of the LGV Est which affords much faster travel times from Paris to Strasbourg. The new curtailed service left Strasbourg at 22.20 daily, shortly after the arrival of a TGV from Paris, and was attached at Karlsruhe to the overnight sleeper service from Amsterdam to Vienna. On 14 December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines". The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture using original carriages from the 1920s and 30s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul. Georges Nagelmackers invited guests to a railway trip of 2, 000 kilometres (1, 200 mi) on his 'Train Eclair de luxe' (lightning luxury train). The train left Paris Gare de Strasbourg on Tuesday, October 10, 1882, just after 18:30 and