Abandoned Orient Express Train Reminds Us Of The Luxury Travel Of The Past
A Rotterdam-based urban photographer who goes by the name of Brian has managed to capture a piece of history that’s slowly fading into oblivion, namely the Grand Orient Express. The train that defined luxury back in 1883 when it was launched by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).
There are only a couple of these beauties left in the world. One, for example, was repurposed into hotel suites in Venice-Simplon Orient Express. The other, the one you’ll see in the pictures below, stands dormant in Belgium, untouched from its last trip in December of 2009.
The Orient Express is only one of the awesome finds by the urban explorer and photographer: “When I step into an abandoned site it feels like stepping into a time machine. I try to feel the emotions of it’s past and that is what I want to show in my pictures,” Brian writes on his website. “When people are looking at my work and raise a question about the “what, why, when” then I feel I have succeeded.”
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This is not the Orient Express, but an old Belgian train. https://www.google.be/search?q=nmbs+620&client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=560&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5kM3X0bTOAhXQ0RoKHVpmCvgQ_AUIBSgB
In the first picture you can even see the Stella Artois logo in the background of the main office in Louvain.
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NMBS type 620 from the 1930's so about 50 years later. More photo's here: http://forum.beneluxspoor.net/index.php/topic,65119.msg3221577525.html?PHPSESSID=hafo0g2cvmppmgo66ktuneafo7#msg3221577525
Oh! Incredible photos!!! I invite all of you to take a look to my photos about old trains in Canfranc, Spain. LINK: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alvarobueno/albums/72157631867540541 Thank you!
Convert it into a bar and a party place. It'd be so cool. Keeping the spirit alive .
Who is the pathetically ignorant one: the photographer or the editor? Or both of them? How can anyone think that this would be a train from the 1800s?
And now let us see the pics again without the clarity control set to 11...
Just like humans, work you to death then just throw you aside and forget about all you have given in your life, Rust in peace old girl.
In the summer of 1959, my mother and I traveled on the Orient Express (I was 8 years old) from Belgrade to Vienna, during a European tour to visit her old wartime friends and colleagues from the Red Cross and postwar relief organizations. In 1959, it was surely not the Orient of Express of its glory days, but we had a sleeper, as I recall, and I do remember lots of dark woodwork.
Thank you Brian, you've allowed us to go back in time with your photos. Hopefully some wonderful person will continue the adventure and restore this wonderful relic back to her glory!
Awesome! Polish version: https://www.facebook.com/martynazagorskafotografia/photos/a.1050658971621384.1073741926.541643182522968/557101154310504/?type=3&theater
This gives me the same eerie and nostalgic feeling as looking at the Titanic remnants.
This is not the Orient Express, but an old Belgian train. https://www.google.be/search?q=nmbs+620&client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=560&prmd=imnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5kM3X0bTOAhXQ0RoKHVpmCvgQ_AUIBSgB
In the first picture you can even see the Stella Artois logo in the background of the main office in Louvain.
Load More Replies... NMBS type 620 from the 1930's so about 50 years later. More photo's here: http://forum.beneluxspoor.net/index.php/topic,65119.msg3221577525.html?PHPSESSID=hafo0g2cvmppmgo66ktuneafo7#msg3221577525
Oh! Incredible photos!!! I invite all of you to take a look to my photos about old trains in Canfranc, Spain. LINK: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alvarobueno/albums/72157631867540541 Thank you!
Convert it into a bar and a party place. It'd be so cool. Keeping the spirit alive .
Who is the pathetically ignorant one: the photographer or the editor? Or both of them? How can anyone think that this would be a train from the 1800s?
And now let us see the pics again without the clarity control set to 11...
Just like humans, work you to death then just throw you aside and forget about all you have given in your life, Rust in peace old girl.
In the summer of 1959, my mother and I traveled on the Orient Express (I was 8 years old) from Belgrade to Vienna, during a European tour to visit her old wartime friends and colleagues from the Red Cross and postwar relief organizations. In 1959, it was surely not the Orient of Express of its glory days, but we had a sleeper, as I recall, and I do remember lots of dark woodwork.
Thank you Brian, you've allowed us to go back in time with your photos. Hopefully some wonderful person will continue the adventure and restore this wonderful relic back to her glory!
Awesome! Polish version: https://www.facebook.com/martynazagorskafotografia/photos/a.1050658971621384.1073741926.541643182522968/557101154310504/?type=3&theater
This gives me the same eerie and nostalgic feeling as looking at the Titanic remnants.
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