No Murder Anymore. Sirkeci Station, Istanbul, Turkey
Agatha Christie's (1890-1976) detective Murder on the Orient Express was published in 1934. Many people will have seen the movies based on that book. That train ran from 1883 to 2009. When I first visited Sirkeci decades ago, it was still a functioning railway station. There were then no bridges yet from Europe to Asia across the Bosporus; you'd have to take a ferry from Sirkeci to Üsküdar. The station was built in 1890 and ceased to function in 2013, when its tasks were taken over by the Marmaray railway running through a Bosporus tunnel with a new and - I think - rather ugly station adjacent to the old one. Today I nostalgically went to look at 'old' Sirkeci again. I found the station is being turned into a museum, a better choice, anyway, than tearing it down. And there's a sign on the wall: Orient Express...
No Murder Anymore. Sirkeci Station, Istanbul, Turkey
Agatha Christie's (1890-1976) detective Murder on the Orient Express was published in 1934. Many people will have seen the movies based on that book. That train ran from 1883 to 2009. When I first visited Sirkeci decades ago, it was still a functioning railway station. There were then no bridges yet from Europe to Asia across the Bosporus; you'd have to take a ferry from Sirkeci to Üsküdar. The station was built in 1890 and ceased to function in 2013, when its tasks were taken over by the Marmaray railway running through a Bosporus tunnel with a new and - I think - rather ugly station adjacent to the old one. Today I nostalgically went to look at 'old' Sirkeci again. I found the station is being turned into a museum, a better choice, anyway, than tearing it down. And there's a sign on the wall: Orient Express...