All Aboard

The industrial growth of the early nineteenth century created the perfect conditions for the development of the railway. However, people also developed a fascination with the new means of transport right from the outset and railways recorded growing passenger traffic. Most trains offered three classes of transport. 

Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it’s going

Edna St Vincent Millay  

The long-distance Orient Express made its debut in 1883, initially linking Paris to Romania via Vienna, before later terminating in Istanbul. Two segments – the Simplon Orient-Express and the Arlberg Orient-Express – also passed through Switzerland.