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1. Nor, strictly, is the VSOE the direct descendant of the very first "Express d‘Orient" that left Paris on October 4, 1883 bound for Istanbul.
2. Since then the VSOE –– which only runs between March and November –– has carried over 350,000 passengers and covered more than four million kilometers of track.
3. A private venture owned and operated by Orient–Express Hotels, Trains and Cruises, the VSOE has been running once weekly from London to Venice and back since 1'82 (the original luxury Orient Express service petered out in the 1'60s). The journey actually involves two separate trains, each made up of restored vintage carriages from the 1'20s and 1'30s.
4. The luxury sleeper service gradually slipped out of use, and it was only with the inauguration of the VSOE in 1'82 –– brainchild of businessman and train lover James Sherwood –– that Europe once again boasted a train experience fit for a king.
5. If it lacks an absolutely perfect historical pedigree, however, and has to share its name with several other services, the VSOE is nonetheless, in character at least, unarguably the true heir to the heyday of luxury train travel, a unique throwback to a lost age of opulent sleeping compartments, cordon bleu dining cars, immaculately uniformed staff and titled clientele.