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Harper's BAZAAR - US
|April 2024
LUXURY TRAINS offer a uniquely NOSTALGIC way to SLOW DOWN and ENJOY the RIDE
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The director Wes Anderson has described train travel as an "endangered species... which is nevertheless very suited to our time." What Anderson is referring to is a current longing for the analog and offline, for experiences that keep us grounded in the present and move at a slower pace. He should know. His 2007 film, The Darjeeling Limited, was memorably set on a luxury train traveling across the Indian countryside, stoking imaginations for years to come.
This is what led the hospitality company Belmond to approach him a few years ago to reinvent Cygnus, a 1950s-era carriage for the company's
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