As Wagons-Lits’ routes reached into North Africa and the Middle East, state-of-the-art metal cars replaced the old wooden ones. Celebrated artists and designers were meanwhile commissioned to ...

All the action occurred in railway cars owned by a company with a title to match the grandeur of the Express: Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits et des Grands Express Européens. Wagons-Lits ...

As far as I could ascertain, the Wagon Lits Company has contracts with almost all European Continental railways, running its dining cars over their roads, paying them certain charges or royalties ...