The last stop in Yugoslavia for the Orient Express, upon which James Bond and Tatiana Romanova were traveling in From Russia With Love is the border town of Sežana. He slept until Sezana. The hard-faced Yugoslav plain-clothes men came on board. The trip from Ljubljana to Sežana takes less than an hour. That’s a pretty short nap, for … Read more
After departing Zegreb, the Orient Express carrying James Bond and Tatiana Romanova thundered on. They hammered into the mountains of Slovenia where the apple trees and the chalets were almost Austrian. The train labored its way through Ljubliana. The girl awoke. They had a breakfast of fried eggs and hard brown bread with coffee that … Read more
After passing through Vincovci and Brod, the Orient Express carrying James Bond and Tatiana Romanova came to the ugly sprawl of Zegreb. Zagreb Glavni kolodvor (Or Zagreb main station) is the largest station in Croatia. It has been in service since 1892. As they pull through the station: The train came to a stop between lines of … Read more
After Tempo leaves them at Belgrade, James Bond and Tatiana Romanova are back on the Orient Express. At nine o’clock the train pulls “out on its all-night run down the valley of the Sava.” Bond examines the passports of the new passengers of the train, and then settles in “for another night with Tatiana’s head … Read more
After James Bond is alerted to a tragedy involving his friend and colleague, Darko Kerim, the next stop for the train is at Belgrade, where they meet up with Stefan Trempo – one of Darko’s sons. The Belgrade–Glavna Station was built in 1884, and became part of the first Paris-Constantinople (Istanbul) Orient Express route in 1888. … Read more