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Murder on the Orient Express

In a golden era of rail travel, passengers could depart from london and go across europe to istanbul. It was the setting for one of agatha christy's most famous novels, murder on the orient express. But in the 19 seventies, that service suffered the same fate as the rest of the rail network in the region. After the second mod war, the middle east was carved up into lots of little state, small estates,. and the railway network was carv along with it.

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