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The Orient Express: King of Trains, Train of Kings

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The journey to the Express was not a simple one. For upper class travellers to enjoy a luxury, non-stop train ride across seven nations, it would take the dream of a lovesick Belgian engineer, with his rather interesting supporting cast: an American industrialist, the inventor of US tabloid journalism, the Prince of Wales, and one of the most prolific mass murderers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week.    / @geographicstravel   Our sister channels: Biographics -    / @biographics   TopTenz -    / @toptenznettop10   Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Arnaldo Teodorani Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net More from Geographics: Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island    • Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island   The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre, Napoleon, and Revolution!    • The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre...   ...more
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Intro

0:00

Georges Nagelmackers

1:44

George Pullman

2:34

William d'Alton Mann

3:10

Gettysburg

3:16

Civil War

3:20

Town Topics

3:25

Vienna - Ostrava

4:45

October, 1882

4:48

Paris - Vienna

4:53

June 5th, 1883

5:08

Belle Epoque

5:28

April 17th, 1884

7:24

October 4th, 1883

8:09

Munich

8:45

1889

9:18

Ferdinand of Bulgaria

9:34

Paul Deschanel

10:20

Cholera

11:25

Robert Baden-Powell

11:35

Belgrade

12:03

Mitteleuropa

12:22

Wilhelm II

12:44

November 11th, 1918

13:02

Calais - Athens

13:35

Belgium - Turkey

13:40

Ruhr Valley, Germany

14:15

September 13th, 1930

14:50

Biatorbay, Hungary

14:53

Josephine Baker

15:03

Sylvester Matuschka

15:10

September, 1939

15:37

Joseph Goebbels

15:52

1942

16:16

Sean Connery

16:40

Robert Shaw

16:49

Jean-Pierre Cassel

16:53

Albert Finney

16:58

From Russia with Love (1963)

17:04

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

17:08

lan Fleming

17:20

Agatha Christie

17:42

Charles Lindbergh

17:56

March, 1932

18:00

Graham Greene

18:10

Alfred Hitchcock

18:29

The Lady Vanishes

18:34

1952

20:05

Simplon Orient Express

20:20

2009

21:10
The Orient Express: King of Trains, Train of Kings
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2019Nov 29
The journey to the Express was not a simple one. For upper class travellers to enjoy a luxury, non-stop train ride across seven nations, it would take the dream of a lovesick Belgian engineer, with his rather interesting supporting cast: an American industrialist, the inventor of US tabloid journalism, the Prince of Wales, and one of the most prolific mass murderers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week.    / @geographicstravel   Our sister channels: Biographics -    / @biographics   TopTenz -    / @toptenznettop10   Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Arnaldo Teodorani Producer - Jennifer Da Silva Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net More from Geographics: Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island    • Aralsk 7: The USSR’s Anthrax Island   The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre, Napoleon, and Revolution!    • The Paris Hotel de Ville: Robespierre...  

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