{"id":2043898,"date":"2010-09-06T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/romfilatelia.ro\/romagazin\/en\/product\/joint-stamp-issue-romania-austria-orient-express\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:04:24","slug":"joint-stamp-issue-romania-austria-orient-express","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/magazin.romfilatelia.ro\/en\/product\/joint-stamp-issue-romania-austria-orient-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint stamp issue ROMANIA \u2013 AUSTRIA ; ORIENT EXPRESS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image<\/a>The Orient Express train made the connection between Paris and Constantinople, namely between the Occident and Orient, and was undoubtedly the most famous and romantic of all trains. \u201cToday, at 5 minutes to five, in Targoviste station, the first Express train (the Orient Express) arrived with a 10 minutes delay. The Orient Express consists of an engine, a baggage car, a restaurant coach, a sleeping coach, a French mail car and the conductor\u2019s car. The train\u2019s staff has different nationalities.\u201d (\u201cRomanul\u201d newspaper, May 27th – 28th \/June 8th – 9th 1883)<\/p>\n

The Orient Express train made the connection between Paris and Constantinople, namely between the Occident and Orient, and was undoubtedly the most famous and romantic of all trains. Though it belongs today only to the nostalgic tourism \u2013 by the trains \u201cNostalgia Istanbul \u2013 Orient Express\u201d (N.I.O.E.) and \u201cVenice Simplon – Orient Express\u201d (V.S.O.E.) which ran and continue running through Romania \u2013 its echoes have never died away. Writers, musicians, painters and cinematographers got inspired from the history of this famous train and contributed to the creation of its legend.<\/p>\n

This train began operating in June 5th 1883, under the name of Le Train d\u2019Orient or Express d\u2019Orient and its first route, Paris (East Station) \u2013 Nancy \u2013 Strasbourg \u2013 Stuttgart \u2013 Munich \u2013 Salzburg \u2013 Vienna \u2013 Bratislava \u2013 Budapest \u2013 Jimbolia \u2013 Timisoara \u2013 Caransebes \u2013 Varciorova \u2013 Craiova \u2013 Pitesti \u2013 Bucharest \u2013 Giurgiu \u2013 Smarda, 2,638 kilometers long, lasted for 59 hours and 15 minutes. The first Orient Express left Giurgiu for Paris on June 8th 1883, at 13:30, arriving into the capital city at 15:00 and, after a 15 minutes halt, it left on its route to Paris. On this occasion, the Postal and Telegraph Service in Giurgiu saluted their Parisian fellows by a telegram with the following Latin text: \u201cSequanam Danubius amice salutat.\u201d (\u201cDanubius friendly salutes Seine\u201d) The Parisian Postal and Telegraph Service promptly answered, also in Latin, to the greetings of the people from Giurgiu: \u201cGratae Danubii fratris salutationi respondet Sequana soror.\u201d (\u201cSister Seine thanks brother Danubius for his greetings.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The official inauguration of the Orient Express train took place on October 4th 1883; on this occasion, they introduced sleeping coaches with bogies, the first of this kind in Europe. The new cars of Orient Express train had 4 axles, were 17.5 meters long, they were made of Teak wood and had crystal glasses. Heated by steam and illuminated by gas, they were \u201cas comfortable as a luxury suite in Paris\u201d. Between two-axle baggage cars, they introduced two four-axle sleeping coaches, having a 20 seats capacity, and also a four-axle restaurant car. The restaurant car (CIWL 151D) was draped in tapestries from the famous Gobelin manufactories, as well as in Cordoba leather and Genovese velvet; it consisted of a large saloon, a smoking lounge with a library, a boudoir, an office and a kitchen.<\/p>\n

At the invitation of Carol I to visit his new summer residence, the Peles Castle in Sinaia, the Orient Express train, with 40 European high officials on board, ran, in October 7th 1883, on the route Bucharest \u2013 Ploiesti \u2013 Sinaia and back.<\/p>\n

Since 1st of June 1889, a second Orient Express train made a direct link between Paris and Constantinople, through a new route via Serbia and Bulgaria, the 2,504 kilometers long course lasting for 67 hours and
\n35 minutes.<\/p>\n

After the commissioning of the Danube bridges, in 1895, the route of the Orient Express train through Romania was extended up to Constanta Harbor on April 19th \/May 1st 1896.<\/p>\n

During the World War I, the services of the European luxury trains, including the Orient Express train, were cancelled. After the hostilities ended, on April 15th 1919, a new international luxury train called Simplon \u2013 Orient Express, was introduced to connect London and Paris via Constantinople. On May 1st 1921, the route of the Orient Express train through Romania was included again in the course, up to Bucharest, via Arad, Teius, Brasov and Sinaia.<\/p>\n

The last Orient Express train of the C.I.W.L.T. Company left Paris for Istanbul on May 19th 1977 on the route Paris \u2013 Milan \u2013 Venice \u2013 Zagreb \u2013 Belgrade \u2013 Sofia \u2013 Istanbul (Sirkeci), the entire journey lasting for about 56 hours.<\/p>\n

Illustrating a highly appreciated collection topic, Romfilatelia introduces into circulation the joint stamp issue entitled \u201cOrient Express\u201d, alongside with Austria, in order to mark the special cultural relationships between Bucharest and Vienna, built over time.<\/p>\n

The stamp with the face value of 4.70 Lei represents the Orient Express train in May 1921, at Sinaia station. It had been pulled by a Pacific engine, type 2C1-h4, which belonged to the Bucharest Travelers Depot and was used on the route Bucharest North \u2013 Ploiesti \u2013 Sinaia \u2013 Brasov and back.<\/p>\n

The stamp with the face value of 2.40 Lei represents the Orient Express train, in 1909, at Salzburg station, consisted of a four-axle restaurant car and pulled by a compound engine, type 2B-n2v from the Austrian series K.k.St.B. 206.01-206.70 belonging to Depot Wien II and which was used to pull the Orient Express train on the route Salzburg \u2013 Vienna and back.<\/p>\n

We kindly thank Eng. Ilie Popescu from S.N.T.F.C. \u2013 \u201cCFR CALATORI\u201d S.A. (Ministry of Transports) for his support granted in the accomplishment of this joint stamp issue.<\/p>\n

Issue date: 2010-09-06<\/p>\n

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