Launched 140 years ago by Belgian engineer Georges Nagelmackers, the Orient Express was a luxury sleeper that, at its peak, had trains running from Paris to Istanbul. The brand became so embedded ...

The Venice Simplon Orient Express is the "grand dame of sleeper trains", said The Times. Since being immortalised by Agatha Christie it's "become the byword for yesteryear elegance", as "one of ...

inspired by his experience of sleeper trains in the United States, set out to replicate it in Europe. The newspapers gave the plans the iconic Orient Express name - orient meaning the east in French.

Belmond – which recently unveiled a carriage-sized suite in collaboration with artist JR on its Venice-Simplon Orient Express – now introduces the Britannic Explorer, the first luxury sleeper train ...