Luxury Trains
Country
|
About Orient Express SNCF Trademark
About Orient Express: Venice Simplon-Orient-Express logo
    
Contents About Orient ExpressThe name Orient Express is heavy with symbolism. Any product or service that identifies itself with 'Orient Express' borrows from the real and imagined history of a rail service that still thrills. For context< this is almost 140 years after a steam locomotive and a short train of carriages linked Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman Empire with Paris in the Belle Époque. It is no wonder that Orient Express is beloved of marketers, authors, movie-makers, designers, and chancers. Be aware of misrepresentation of Belmond trains and the Northern Belle as Orient Express trains. Who Owns The Orient Express?The Société nationale des chemins de fer français, SNCF, is France's national state-owned railway company which owns the right to the name Orient Express. Venice Simplon-Orient-ExpressAlthough popularly known as the 'Orient Express', the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express luxury train owned and operated by Belmond Trains and Cruises can only use these iconic words as part of the full train name. British Pullman, a Belmond TrainAlthough in recent times, the British Pullman was called 'Orient Express British Pullman', the correct name is now British Pullman, a Belmond Train or British Pullman.
|
Join Our Mailing List:And be a Club Member for exclusive offers and luxury train news 67,456 people have already joined Travel AgentsPlease contact us to book any luxury train.Travel Agent BookingsGroup TravelPrivate Rail CarriagesPrivate rail cars: the luxury of time with those who matter most..Train charters & group travelTrain Chartering: exclusive train hire & escorted group rail travel.. |
