Silver Arrow (rail-air service)

This article is about the intermodal passenger transport service. For other uses, see Silver Arrow.

Silver Arrow
BAC 1-11s operated the air mode of some Silver Arrow services
Overview
Service typeIntermodal passenger
StatusDiscontinued
LocaleEngland–France
First service18 May 1956 (1956-05-18)
Last service1980
SuccessorEurostar
Route
TerminiVictoria station, London
Gare du Nord, Paris

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]

  1. ^ Smith 2015, p. 47.