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The Orient Express is the name of a long-distance passenger train service originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits.
Georges Nagelmackers invited guests to a railway trip of 2,000 kilometres on his 'Train Eclair de luxe' (lightning luxury train). The train left Paris Gare de l'Est on Tuesday, October 10, 1882, just after 18:30 and arrived in Vienna the next day at 23:20. The return trip left Vienna on Friday, October 13, 1882, at 16:40 and, as planned, re-entered the Gare de Strasbourg at 20:00 on Saturday October 14, 1882.
On June 5, 1883 the first 'Express d'Orient' left Paris for Vienna. Vienna remained the terminus until October 4, 1883. The train was officially renamed Orient Express in 1891.
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