Editing Orient Express (section)

== Train Eclair de lux (the "test" train) ==
[[File:Logo CIWL.jpg|thumb|right|CIWL logo]]

In 1882, [[Georges Nagelmackers]], a Belgian banker's son, invited guests to a railway trip of {{convert|2000|km|0|abbr=on}} on his ''Train Eclair de luxe'' ("lightning luxury train").<ref name="Smithsonian"/><ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news | first = Anthony | last = Lambert | title = The Orient-Express: Great Train Journeys | date = 21 January 2013 | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/journeysbyrail/9815164/The-Orient-Express-Great-Train-Journeys.html | work = [[The Daily Telegraph]] | access-date = 13 March 2013}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=July 2013}} The train left Paris [[Gare de Paris-Est|Gare de l'Est]] on Tuesday, 10 October 1882, just after 18:30 and arrived in Vienna the next day at 23:20. The return trip left Vienna on Friday, 13 October at 16:40 and, as planned, re-entered the [[Gare de l'Est|Gare de Strasbourg]] at 20:00 on Saturday 14 October.

Georges Nagelmackers was the founder of ''[[Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits]]'' (CIWL), which expanded its luxury trains, travel agencies and hotels all over Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Its most famous train remains the ''Orient Express''.

The train was composed of:
* Baggage car
* Sleeping coach with 16 beds (with [[bogie]]s)
* Sleeping coach with 14 beds (3 axles)
* Restaurant coach (nr. 107)
* Sleeping coach with 13 beds (3 axles)
* Sleeping coach with 13 beds (3 axles)
* Baggage car (complete 101 ton)
The first menu on board (10 October 1882): oysters, soup with Italian pasta, [[turbot]] with green sauce, chicken ‘à la chasseur’, fillet of beef with ‘château’ potatoes, ‘chaud-froid’ of game animals, lettuce, chocolate pudding, buffet of desserts.<ref name="Inke">{{cite web | url = http://www.travelthruhistory.com/html/exotic47.html | title = Memories of the Orient Express | access-date = 13 March 2013 | last = Piegsa-quischotte | first = Inke | work = Travel Through History| date = 15 December 2011 }}</ref>
[[File:L'Orient Express vers 1930 (c) wagons-lits diffusion.jpg|thumb|centre|''Orient Express'' cars, 1930|750x750px]]
{{Clear}}