The exhibition shows scale-models of the cars and artefacts used in compartments along with archive photos, posters and postcards taking visitors to the times when the train carried emperors, artists and aristocrats on the 3,500 kilometre-route, of which one third ran through Hungary by 1886, she said.
Some of the photos tell about famous passengers from the age, such as railway enthusiast emperor Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, who often drove the Orient's locomotive himself, or American dance legend Josephine Baker and Dutch stage dancer Mata Hari, the sometimes German, sometimes French WWI spy whose name has become synonymous with espionage.
The exhibition will run until August 24.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
