There has for many years been a close connection between trains and boats no more so than at the Channel ports.
All this has now changed as this modern Sea France ferry pictured in 1998 will carry few passengers who have arrived at Dover
by rail, famous trains such as the 'Golden Arrow' are long gone. Likewise Britain's first International passenger train that started in 1936 the 'Night Ferry'...
which when visiting relatives I can remember seeing at around 6.45am setting off for London with at first steamers and then class 71s in charge...
ended in 1980. The VSOE or Orient Express still enables you today to experience something from the past however.
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Photo from James & Martin's Picture Collection Copyright 'Jampics' m.hawkes7@ntlworld.com 
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British and Foreign Railway Pictures <A HREF="http://jampics.fotopic.net/"> Jampics Fotopic.</a>