I can only vouch for a visit to Waterloo in probably 1956/57 to see the
wondrous Golden Arrow - with a decorative headboard carried by a simmering
steam locomotive with streamlined 'bodywork' (which I assume was a Bulleid
Pacific) - whose rolling stock was certainly bound for Paris via ferry.
Roger knows more than I about the cross-channel arrangements which I knew
about only from a Ladybird book. Suffice to say that on hearing that my
father had to go to "the Continent" on business, I had visions of the ferry
moving as the rolling stock was shunted on board.
How interesting that so many of us share similar pre-OM memories!
Piers, whose family left London in 1958, and who therefore went to school
'oop north' - too far to Dulwich College, chaps (or Downside), but I did go
by steam hauled train!
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Roger D. Key
Sent: 18 August 2004 11:09
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Gayton Northamptonshire #3 and steam engines...OT
I was there '53- '60; by the time I left the locomotives were pure electric
as far as I recall. The Golden Arrow travelled to Paris; the coaches went on
the ferry between Dover and Calais in one direction, and between Calais and
Folkestone in the other I believe. Folkestone harbour was very interesting,
as the viaduct down to the ferry was both steep (1:45?) and weak. The
express locomotive had to wait at the town station, whilst three or four
lightweight tank engines (R1 0-6-0 built around 1865?) fetched the train
from the harbour, with two or three pushing and one pulling.
There was a Brighton Pullman train, but that was electric multiple-unit....
Regards/Mvh.,
Roger Key
jez wrote:
When I was at school at Dulwich College in London I used to watch the same
thing! Wasn't the Golden Arrow just going to Brighton?
(Was there '64 - '70)
br
jez
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:33:18 +0200, "Roger D. Key" wrote:
> When I was at school at Dulwich College in London I used to watch a
> double-headed wagon-lits Night Ferry from Paris to London pass by the
> school grounds every morning, and later each day the Golden Arrow
Pullman
> Express from London to Paris. All drawn by fine steam locomotives!
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