ABSTRACT

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s. As modern-day sleeper services are being resurrected across European rail networks, this book looks at the complex organisation that was required to run their forbears, with sleeping cars with clean bedding and conductors and dining cars with food and drink were in the right place at the right time across many different nations, systems and time-zones.

chapter Chapter 1|4 pages

The European Scene

chapter Chapter 2|22 pages

The Night Ferry

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

The Orient Express

chapter Chapter 4|37 pages

The Arlberg-Orient Express

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

The Blue Train

chapter Chapter 6|26 pages

The Nord-Sud Concept

chapter Chapter 7

The Nord Express Today

chapter Chapter 8|11 pages

The Sud Express

chapter Chapter 9|11 pages

The Rome Express

chapter Chapter 10|7 pages

The Oberland Express

chapter Chapter 11|10 pages

The Peninsular Express and the Boat Trains

chapter Chapter 12

‘No Train Tonight’

chapter Chapter 13|10 pages

The Grand Expresses Beyond Europe

chapter Chapter 14|17 pages

The Italia Express and the Roma-Milano

chapter Chapter 15|12 pages

How Wagons-Lits is Run

chapter Chapter 16|5 pages

The New Grand European Expresses