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The Chemins de fer Orientaux (English: Oriental Railway Turkish: İstanbul-Viyana Demiryolu) (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman railway company operating in the European part of the empire and later European Turkey from 1870 to 1937. The CO was one of the five pioneer railways in the Ottoman Empire and built the main trunk line in the Balkans. Between 1889 and 1937 the railway hosted the world-famous Orient Express.The railway was charted in 1870 to build a line from Istanbul to Vienna.