Le Train Bleu
French luxury night express train / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the French luxury passenger train. For the ballet, see Le Train Bleu (ballet). For the restaurant, see Le Train Bleu (restaurant). For other trains known in English as the Blue Train, see Blue Train (disambiguation).
The Calais-Mediterranée Express was a French luxury night express train which operated from 1886 to 2003. It gained international fame as the preferred train of wealthy and famous passengers between Calais and the French Riviera during the interwar period. It was colloquially referred to as Le Train Bleu in French (which became its formal name after World War II) and the Blue Train in English because of its dark-blue sleeping cars.