Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Dinner is served somewhere in Champagne; by breakfast the marquetry-lined restaurant cars are winding between the Zürichsee and Walensee toward the Arlberg. The Brenner crossing is the day’s set piece before the long glide down past Bolzano’s orchards and Verona to the lagoon causeway, where Santa Lucia’s platforms give way to water. It remains the most theatrical way to arrive in Venice: a moving museum in which every guest is part of the exhibit.

Stations

1. 0 kmGare de Paris-Est +4
2. 878 kmInnsbruck Hauptbahnhof +7
3. 1,265 kmVenezia Santa Lucia +3

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Paris Gare de l’Est send-off
• Zürichsee and Walensee at breakfast
• Arlberg Pass ramparts
• Brenner Pass at 1,370 m
• South Tyrol orchards near Bolzano
• lagoon causeway into Venezia Santa Lucia

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from 3 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 6253934 (489 km), relation 20060930 (153 km), relation 10528828 (233 km), 875 km of the route between them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5.5 km
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: Belmond, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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