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The '''Orient Express''' was a long-distance passenger [[train]] originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on [[Earth]]. | The '''Orient Express''' was a long-distance passenger [[train]] originally operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits on [[Earth]]. [[Orient Express (spacecraft)|One Orient Express]] was built that travelled in [[space]]. | ||
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The train was perhaps most famous for being the setting of a detective novel, ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', written in [[1934]] by [[Agatha Christie]] and featuring her Belgian detective character [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. It is unlikely, however, that, per Donna's suggestion, the book was copyrighted "Donna Noble." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | The train was perhaps most famous for being the setting of a detective novel, ''[[Murder on the Orient Express]]'', written in [[1934]] by [[Agatha Christie]] and featuring her Belgian detective character [[Hercule Poirot]]. This was inadvertently inspired by [[Donna Noble]], when she met the writer in [[1926]]. It is unlikely, however, that, per Donna's suggestion, the book was copyrighted "Donna Noble." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]'') | ||
[[Orient Express (spacecraft)|A space-faring]] version of the train was built that attempted to mimic the original in fine detail. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mummy on the Orient Express (TV story)|Mummy on the Orient Express]]'') | |||
