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Picture No 10417956
Date 1929
Description ORIENT EXPRESS IN SNOW
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The Simplon-Orient Express train, snowbound at the village station of Cherkeskoy, sixty miles from its final destination, Constantinople (Istanbul). The train left Paris on 29 January and was due to arrive at Constantinople on 1 February. Instead, it remained snowed up for ten days. A train travelling in the opposite direction was similarly snowbound alongside it for 96 hours. With no heating on the train, the passengers of both trains huddled together in the station buffet, passing the time by playing cards, reading, listening to gramophone music and dancing, including improvised performances by a German ballerina.
Source Illustrated London News 23 February 1929 page 316-317
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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