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Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (International Sleeping-Car Company) is a Belgian-founded French company known for providing and operating luxury trains with sleepers and dining cars during the late 19th and the 20th centuries, most notably the Orient Express.
La Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits (CWL), en forme longue la Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits et des grands express européens puis la Compagnie internationale des wagons-lits et du tourisme (CIWLT), appellation souvent abrégée en les Wagons-Lits, est une entreprise française d'origine belge, créée en 1872, prestataire de ...
On May 20th, the Orient-Express made its last direct trip between Paris and Istanbul. The development of the air travel market at the end of the 20th century was a blow to the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, who was forced to sell some of its cars at auction.
The Orient Express was a long-distance passenger luxury train service created in 1883 by the Belgian company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, with terminal stations in Paris in the northwest and Istanbul in the southeast, and branches extending service ...
Learn about the origins, adventures and fame of the Orient-Express, the most famous train of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL), linking Paris to Istanbul. Discover how CIWL created the myth of luxury travel and influenced literature, cinema and media.
Find over 20,000 digital photos of Compagnie des Wagons-Lits (CIWL), the creator of the Orient Express, and Paris Lyon Méditerranée (PLM), a former railway company. Browse through various sections of the site, such as celebrities, trains, posters, plans, uniforms and more.
Die Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits ( CIWL ), zeitweise auch Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens ( deutsch Internationale Schlafwagen-Gesellschaft (ISG) ); seit 1967 Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et du Tourisme ( CIWLT, deutsch Internationale Schlafwagen- und Touristik-Gesellschaft (ISTG
