page_title: Sud Express
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sud Express / History
caption_attribution_description: Português: Interior da carruagem-restaurante do comboio Sud Express, em 1887. English: Interior of the restaurant carriage on the Sud Express train, in 1887.
context_page_description: Sud Express is an overnight passenger train connecting Lisbon with Hendaye, a French commune on the Franco-Spanish border. The original service, operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, ran to Calais via Madrid and Paris.
context_section_description: The inaugural trip of the Sud Express took place on 21 October 1887 connecting Lisbon via Madrid to Paris in 45 hours and services were extended on 4 November 1887 to Calais. Initially the service was weekly, but in 1888 was run twice weekly and from London Charing Cross. Also in 1888 the British shipping Company Royal Mail launched connecting package services from Lisbon to Rio de la Plata and Brazil. The service frequency increased further and on 1 January 1907 started to run daily. 
  It was suspended between 11 December 1937 and 1 August 1939 due to the Spanish Civil War. It was again suspended on 1 November 1940 due to the Second World War. It restarted between Paris and Lisbon in March 1945.
caption: The dining car of the Sud Express in 1887
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