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Orient Express, the
     
Orient Express, the
a famous luxury railway train, used especially by rich people. It used to run (1883-1977) between Paris and Istanbul in Turkey, but there is now a luxury Orient Express train that goes from London to Venice. The train appears in many stories, including Agatha Christie 's novel Murder on the Orient Express (1934).
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