Silver Arrow (rail-air service)
Intermodal transport service linking London and Paris / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the intermodal passenger transport service. For other uses, see Silver Arrow.
The Silver Arrow (French: Flèche d’Argent) was an intermodal passenger transport service linking Victoria station in London with Gare du Nord in Paris, via Gatwick Airport and Le Touquet Airport, northern France. In operation between 1956 and the opening of the Channel Tunnel, it used a combination of rail and air transport, and, for some of its existence, also buses.[1]
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Service type | Intermodal passenger |
Status | Discontinued |
Locale | England–France |
First service | 18 May 1956 (1956-05-18) |
Last service | 1980 |
Successor | Eurostar |
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Termini | Victoria station, London Gare du Nord, Paris |
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