End of the Line for Celebrated Train Service "Orient Express"

According to Independent, the most celebrated train service in European railway history will not see out the year.

The most famous passenger railway line in the world, the Orient Express, will be officially abolished on 12th December. Linking east and west Europe, the trains on this route transporting passengers full 126th year. Slow electrical train currently transports passengers from Strasbourg to Vienna, and lines be abolished because modern fast trains took precedence in the transportation of passengers. After the abolition of the line, passengers will still be able to experience the charm of the former train traveling on the line from London to Venice, which held by private company Venice Simplon-Orient Express. This line was launched just after the model of the original Orient Express line.

Almost all the European monarchs of that era have traveled by Orient Express. King George the Greek, Bulgarian King Ferdinand and his successor Boris, English King Edward VII and Edward VIII, Swedish King Gustav. So they called it "the king of trains and train kings".

It was noted that the Bulgarian King Ferdinand and his son Boris gladly manage the Orient Express, realizing that no one can ban them at least in territory of their country. Boris once even caused the incident. To avoid unbearable delay he raised the temperature in the steam boiler so that exploded, and both stoker were killed, EH Cookridge writes in his book "The Life and Times of the most famous train in history."

"It's a great shame in this age when there's a renaissance of rail travel that they can't keep such an important Central European link going. High-speed trains are all very well, but trains that are the equivalent of a gentle drive through the country should be preserved. It's tragic that it's going, and I'd love to see some way of saving it" said a leading British expert on transportation Christian Volmar.

Back to 1934th the train was the place of event in the novel "Murder on the Orient Express", the author of many crime novels, the so-called Queen of Crime Agatha Christie.

"Orient Express" was once passing through France, Germany, Austria, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.