Malta's express train

Actor David Suchet and director Philip Martin in Kalkara on the set of the TV film Murder on the Orient Express. Malta was doubling up for Istanbul in Agatha Christie's classic fiction novel. The well-known 63-year-old British actor has been playing the role of Hercule Poirot for 21 years. Some 35 British and 40 Maltese crew members were involved in the local shoot. The film, which is being made by ITV Studios, will use archive material to tell the train's history from its inaugural journey across Europe in 1883 to its role in both wars.