Southern Railway Day & Night - Services

An All-Pullman “” races through Tonbridge:

• http://youtu.be/m3HOCjhAn4A

1929, outside Victoria Station: “Golden Arrow” Pullman service departs in style, (LBSCR’s overhead electrification can be seen), and particularly note the ex- South Eastern Railway’s American Pullman cars on the second departure seen, thanks to Southern Railway Films, the Sundays only “Kentish Belle” all-Pullman express to Margate.

Wikipedia on the “Golden Arrow:”

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Arrow_(train)

London - Paris:

• London Victoria 11:00 • 12:55* • 14:10 • Paris Nord 17:44

Paris – London:

• Paris Nord 10:30 • Boulogne; 13:45* • Folkestone 15:15 • London Victoria 17:20

(Kent History Forum extract)

“Canterbury,” the First “Golden Arrow” Ferry:

• http://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/wordpress/ts-canterbury-ii- past-and-present/

Bluebell Railway’s celebrated “Golden Arrow” dining train services have been running for over 20 years. Below is a link to a Beulah film of a 1992 departure including Pullman Car “Bertha” and RKB kitchen car 1566, no longer at Bluebell, Pullman Car 64 and a BY passenger brake van, prior to Pullman kitchen car “Fingall” entering service.

• General information: http://www.bluebell-railway.com/golden-arrow/ • http://youtu.be/4mHFU0A5Gjk

The , London-to-Paris Overnight Train with Through Coaches Via the Dover to Dunkerque Trainferry:

Malcolm Root’s painting: http://www.railart.co.uk/gallery/root2.shtml

These comprehensive links tell the story of the train:

• http://www.darstaed.com/lux_nf.html • http://www.semgonline.com/misc/named_09.html • http://www.irps-wl.org.uk/wagon-lits/services/nightferry • http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/transport/night_ferry.htm

Former “Night Ferry” Wagons-Lits car No. 3801 seen at Sheffield Park in 1992:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/50576141@N03/6715411825/

This privately-owned carriage’s delivery journey from CIWL Ostend by rail to Zeebrugge via Ghent travelling in goods trains and took the train ferry to Harwich, forward by road to Sheffield Park. The NRM have a beautifully preserved car in their collection, Nene Valley Railway a baggage car fourgon.

See the Golden Arrow and Night Ferry trains pass through South London (and W tanks on freights):

• http://youtu.be/H98D2xjBet8

The Night Ferry train arrives London Victoria

• http://youtu.be/r_Xg0n4uUi4

A Southern Railway ship's flag as carried on these services in SR days:

A Typical Night Ferry Timetable:

Down Station Up d London 21:00 09:10 Victoria a a Dover 22:42 07:20 Marine d 05:34 d Dunkerque a 01:21 09:00 a Paris d 22:00 08:44 a Bruxelles d 21:15

The SNCF Night Ferry Loco with Headboard: