WONDERFUL AND RARE TRAIN BLUE POSTER illustrated by ZENOBEL.
Published on the occasion of the implementation on the PLM network of the famous and luxurious Blue Train.
On December 8, 1883, a few months after L'Orient-Express, the Compagnie des wagons-lits (CIWL) put the Calais-Nice-Rome Express into service for the connection between Paris and Rome.
Due to contracts between Pullman and the Società per le Ferrovie dell'Alta Italia, CIWL is obliged to route the route along the Côte d'Azur.
The Italian route was canceled in 1884 and the train renamed Calais-Nice Express.
When the Pullman company withdrew from Italy in 1885, CIWL offered the Rome Express for the Mont-Cenis Rail Tunnel route and the Calais - Méditerranée Express for British tourists wishing to visit the Côte d'Azur.
The Blue Train was a luxury train, officially called the "Calais-Mediterranean-Express", launched in 1886 by the Compagnie des wagons-lits (CIWL) and running between Calais (connection to and from England) and Ventimiglia via Paris, Dijon, Lyon-Perrache, Marseille, Toulon, Saint-Raphaël, Cannes, Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, Nice, Monaco, Monte-Carlo and Menton.
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