In Popular Culture
Agatha Christie set two of her Hercule Poirot mysteries on or around CIWL trains:
- Murder on the Orient Express, set on the Orient Express.
- The Mystery of the Blue Train, set on the Calais-Mediterranée Express.
Sidney Gilliat and Clifford Grey wrote the script for the 1932 British Film directed by Walter Forde:
- Rome Express, set on the Rome Express.
In 1991, David Copperfield performed a televised illusion which caused a recently-restored "Orient Express dining car" (in fact an American dining car decorated in Wagon-Lits colours) to seemingly vanish into thin air.
CIWL model railway cars have been manufactured by many companies including Märklin, Fleischmann, Trix, Jouef, Bachmann, France Trains and Tri-ang. Rivarossi also produced very detailed models, discontinued in the late nineties, production restarted lately with the new society affiliated to Hornby.
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