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My grandmother Agatha loved the Orient Express... shame about the bedbugs; YOUR CARRIAGE AWAITS: Stewards greet travellers on the modern-day train and, left, an old advertisement RELATIVE FAME: Agatha Christie and Mathew in 1956 POWERFUL MEMORIES: Mathew

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From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20080120
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Byline: HILARY MACASKILL

THE Orient-Express British Pullman waiting room at Victoria Station islined with stately, plush armchairs, imparting a suitable air of dignity to the9.30 departure. Thanks to the association with Agatha Christie, there is, evenon this weekday morning, an aura of glamour, a hint of mystery.

The Queen of Crime's Murder On The Orient Express, both the book and on film,have done much to increase the cachet of this train, resurrected as the VeniceSimplon-Orient- Express in 1982, five years after entrepreneur James Sherwoodacquired two sleeper carriages ...

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