Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (International Sleeping-Car Company) is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury...
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luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the...
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It resumed in 1947, ceasing in 1980. It was operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits until 1977 and then British Rail. The Night Ferry was introduced...
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civil engineer and businessman, famous for founding the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and creating the Orient Express. Nagelmackers was born...
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had bought two original carriages at an auction when the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits withdrew from the Orient Express service, passing the service...
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Pullman Company. And lounge cars were operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in France, and the British Pullman Car Company in Great...
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motels in the United States). In 1991, it acquired the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, which owned Pullman Hotels and Resorts, Altea, and Europcar...
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used throughout the First World War in that capacity for Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the company best known for operating the Orient Express...
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Sleeping car (redirect from Wagon-lits)
as well as windows for the upper berths. In Europe, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (French for "International Sleeping Car Company") first...
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it was a premier overnight passenger train operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits between Istanbul and Baghdad. After 1972, passengers could...
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