Friends of the Rail Forum

The legendary Orient Express train is expanding its route across Europe this year, with the announcement of five new boarding points. Famous for an atmosphere that plunges guests back into the first decades of the 20th century, the romantic train made famous by Agatha Christie has also added three new grand suites.

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express has long captured the hearts and imaginations of guests, and is now adding Rome, Florence, Geneva, Brussels and Amsterdam to its routes on board its 17 restored carriages. The new route to and from Venice and Amsterdam connects three European capital cities: Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam...

It’s easy to find the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express office at London’s Victoria railway station: a cluster of people at Platform 2 are dressed 1920s-style – cloche hats, fur wraps, some men in tweed suits – as they check-in for their departure on the world’s most famous train journey...