Golden Arrow (train) Golden Arrow (train) The ' () was a luxury boat train of the Southern Railway and later British Railways. It linked London with Dover, where passengers took the ferry to Calais to join the ' of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF which took them on to Paris. The "Flèche d’Or" was introduced in 1926 as an all-first-class Pullman service between Paris and Calais. On 15 May 1929, the Southern Railway introduced the equivalent between London Victoria and Dover while simultaneously launching a new first class only ship, the , for the ferry crossing.The train usually consisted
Rheingold (train) was integrated into the Bundesbahn's new Intercity network in 1971, the TEE "Erasmus" began using the displaced dome cars, along with the "Rheingold". The dome cars were withdrawn on 30 May 1976. The new cars, together with improvements to the track along parts of its route in the mid-1960s, made the "Rheingold" the fastest train in Germany. In 1964, the train was scheduled to cover the Freiburg – Karlsruhe section in 59 minutes, working out to an "average" speed of , which was the "fastest schedule in German rail history" up to that time. Until about 1972 the train's all-first-class,