Beautiful Decay Photos Of The Oriental Express Train Shows The Luxury Of Travel In The Past

By Ksenia on August 10, 2016

Do you remember Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”? It was written (and filmed) a long time ago and maybe the mysterious murder took place in a train just like the one at the photos in this gallery. The luxury train of some past times was launched by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) back in 1883, and today stands dormant in Belgium, forgotten even by Hercule Poirot.

A Rotterdam-based urban photographer who goes by the name of Brian is the person responsible for keeping this legendary train out of complete oblivion in a form intriguing photographs of the Grand Orient Express which last trip was in December of 2009. This train is one of just a few remain trains of the kind. One of them, for example, had a bit more dignified retirement; it was repurposed into hotel suites in Venice-Simplon Orient Express.

The Orient Express was a great discovery of urban explorer and photographer and inspired him deeply: “When I step into an abandoned site it feels like stepping into a time machine. I try to feel the emotions of it’s past and that is what I want to show in my pictures,” Brian writes on his website. “When people are looking at my work and raise a question about the “what, why, when” then I feel I have succeeded.”

Check out the piece of history in the gallery below.

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