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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 12 (March 1, 1940)

War's Effect on Long-distance Services

War's Effect on Long-distance Services.

Passenger train operation in Britain has not been affected by the war to any unusual extent, although train services have been cut down in the interests of economy and to make way for vital transportation needs. On the mainland of Europe, however, long-distance services have disappeared by the score. No longer are the great capitals linked by world-famous trains like the “Orient Express” (Paris Stuttgart MunichVienna-Budapest-Bukarest), and the “Nord Express” (Calais-Paris-Brussels Cologne Berlin Warsaw). All through trains routed via Germany are cancelled, and the Berlin authorities have withdrawn within their own frontiers all German locomotives and stock, at the same time purloining much equipment from sorely harassed Czechoslovakia and Poland.