Shame about the silting. Like Faversham ,common to many areas these days. The area must have been quite unique with WW1 , and later D DAY.
Interesting.
As with Dover BR Sealink used to run Train Ferries... I used one to get to Paris years back.
Just wondering. Did the train/carriages actually board the ferries ?
Absolutely, I think it was a sleeper,Victoria to Gare du Nord
You still can from mainland Italy to Sicily and a few other places in Europe. The Harwich train ferry gantry is actually listed and took its last train onto the ferry in the mid 80s. Some good videos on youtube of it. It initially survived the channel tunnel opening because the tunnel wouldn’t allow dangerous chemical tank trains through but closed due to the Dover ferry route being more economical until that also closed.
I seem to remember in the 1970s having to get off the train at Folkstone, board a ferry, then get a train from Calais to Paris . An all night trip to make a morning meeting when Heathrow was closed with fog.
Me too
There was a sleeper service called "Night Ferry" which went from Victoria to Paris via Dover/Dunkirk where the sleeper coaches boarded the train ferry. It lasted until the 1980s when the Eurotunnel opened. There was also the "Golden Arrow" boat train from Victoria to Dover where the passengers walked across to the passenger only ferry "Invicta" at Dover marine station. Invicta was the pride of the fleet and sailed at noon every day. A similar service operated from Folkestone but there was never a linkspan there for rail wagons to board the ferry. The last train from Folkestone harbour was a steam hauled special about 15 years ago before they pulled up the track but the line had closed many years earlier.
