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11 - International Favorites
(Europe and Others)
Here I pay tribute to a very few of the
many, many
fine rail passenger services to be found outside of North America.
Instead of the Official Guide, my primary reference here is Cook's
Continental Timetable (and its successors, Cook's European Timetable
and Cook's Overseas Timetable). Many thanks to Thomas Cook,
Ltd., for giving me permission to reproduce their timetable
information
here.
The Trains:
The Indian Pacific
The
Australian transcontinental flagship, connecting Sydney on the Pacific
coast with Perth on the Indian Ocean coast by way of Adelaide, in South
Australia. Indian
Pacific - May, 1988
The Lappland
Arrow (Lapplandspilen)
Service
between the Norwegian port city of Narvik (well north of the Arctic
Circle) and Malmö, on the southern coast of Sweden. Operated by the
Swedish state railways. Lappland
Arrow (Lapplandspilen) - December, 1975
The USSR sponsored this train which linked Western Europe (London,
Paris) with Berlin, Warsaw and Moscow in the East. Ost-West
Express - May, 1971
The Rheingold
Trans-Europe Express service from Amsterdam and Hook of Holland to
Geneva, with connecting service to Milan and Munich. The Rheingold
- February, 1968
The Simplon-Orient Express
This member of the Orient Express
franchise connected Paris, Athens, and Istanbul by way of the southern
route through Switzerland and Italy, with a section for Naples and Rome. Simplon-Orient Express - October, 1960
