GRAND EUROPEAN EXPRESSES : the story of the wagons-lits.
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 look...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
ROUTLEDGE,
2023.
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| Series: | Routledge revivals
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| ISBN: | 9781003450122 1003450121 9781000967272 1000967271 9781000967333 1000967336 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | George Behrend |