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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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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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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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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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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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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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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company, Dornier-Werke, leased factory facilities from the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, which, like the railway workshops, were located south...
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passenger Monsieur Bouc, director of the train operator Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). Other passengers include American widow Caroline...
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Details and changes are in the article regarding the hotel. Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits Georges Nagelmackers A. Mühl, 125 Jahre/Ans/Years CIWL...
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because of its dark-blue sleeping cars. In December 1883 the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) created its second luxury train after the Orient...
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railway entrepreneur Georges Nagelmackers founded the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (lit. International Sleeping-Car Company, also CIWL). The...
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Lisbon and Madrid, and which originally was operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and ran north of Paris to Calais. After 1994, the Sud Express...
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build the equivalent of the Pullman Company in Europe, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). The fast-growing railroad networks led the rail...
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written by Alan Bennett. Number 69 was the head office of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits until 1988 At no. 158 there is the Musée Jacquemart-André...
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Battista Diatto, began building railway carriages for Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and the Orient Express. In 1905 Guglielmo's grandsons,...
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needed] Around that time he met Xavier Bouc, director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Recounted in the short story The Kidnapped Prime Minister...
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Valley Railway near Peterborough also lent their original Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits rolling stock to the studio. In August 2010, production...
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called Carlson Travel Network, and the travel agency of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (literally sleeping car), founded by Georges Nagelmackers...
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his posters advertising travel, for clients such as the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. He was a pioneer of airbrush arts. His creations for the...
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Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line...
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Tripoli line to Beirut. The service was operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and was discontinued in 1972.[citation needed] In 1933...
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100th hotel. In 1991, following Accor's acquisition of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the Altea hotels acquired through this deal became Mercure...
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Oiseau Bleu started as a luxury train operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits as their second Pullman service between Belgium and France...
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France opens, using Mallet locomotives. November 10 – Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits begins to operate the Rome Express train from Calais Maritime...
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sleeper service was provided to Oslo when the international Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) extended one of the carriages of the Nord Express...
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construction of parks). The Villa Angiolina was later run by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. In the Angiolina Park today stands Schüler's bust, a work...
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