La Flèche d'Or

(') was a luxury boat train of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF. It linked Paris with Calais, where passengers took the ferry to Dover to join the ' of the Southern Railway and later British Railways, which took them on to London.

In popular culture

• La Flèche d'Or appeared as the backdrop to a photoshoot by Audrey Hepburn's character in the 1957 movie Funny Face with Fred Astaire.

See also

• Eurostar – high-speed train service via the Channel Tunnel (since 1994)
• Night Ferry – sleeper train between London and Paris/Brussels (1936–1980)
• Silver Arrow (rail-air service) – intermodal passenger transport service between London and Paris (1956–c 1994)

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