GHOST TRAIN Eerie photos capture the rusty remains of the once-elegant Grand Orient Express that has now been abandoned and left to rot on the rails
THESE pictures reveal the crumbling ruins of the famed Grand Orient Express, now hollowed-out and almost reduced to rubble.
There are only a couple of the trains, launched in 1883, left in the world
This example stands dormant in Belgium, untouched from its last voyage in the winter of 2009.
Rusty ceilings, moth-eaten seats and tattered floors capture its level of decay.
A Rotterdam-based urban photographer, known only as Brian, managed to snap these pictures while exploring the area.
He said: "When I step into an abandoned site it feels like stepping into a time machine.
"I try to feel the emotions of its past and that is what I want to show in my pictures.
"When people are looking at my work and raise a question about the 'what, why, when' then I feel I have succeeded."
Some Orient Express trains have been re-purposed rather than left to rot.
It was created by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL), travelling through Paris and the old city of Constantinople, now Istanbul.
CIWL later developed a network of luxury trains across Europe, including the Blue Train, the Golden Arrow and the North Express.
It went down in history as the setting of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, now being remade into a Hollywood blockbuster.
A few squirts of Febreeze will do wonders here.
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