Train Ferry
The Night Ferry – Shipping Timeline
Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace (ALA)
25th March 2018
The Night Ferry – Shipping Timeline
Introduced on the night of the 14th-15th October 1936, the Night Ferry was an international sleeper train operating between London Victoria and Paris Gare du Nord. In later years Brussels was also served. The service was operated by…
MV Transcontainer I – Past and Present
Ferries
23rd May 2021
MV Transcontainer I – Past and Present
Mv Niobe I ex Nour I, Transcontainer I Matt Murtland Collection Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1968 at Cons. Nav. & Ind. De la Mediterranean (CNIM), La Seyne…
MV Saint Eloi – Past and Present
Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace (ALA)
23rd April 2022
MV Saint Eloi – Past and Present
MV Aeolos, ex Moby Love, Moby Love 2, King Orry, Channel Entente, Saint Eloi - Steel twin screw motor vessel built by Cantieri Navali di Pietra Ligure, Genoa. Italy (Yard…
Admiralty Pier Train Ferry Berth
Maritime Features
18th October 2020
Admiralty Pier Train Ferry Berth
With ships becoming much larger only vessels built up to and before the early 1970’s could fit into the original train ferry dock situated within Dover Western Docks. The new…
MV Cambridge Ferry – Past and Present
British Railways Board (BRB)
7th April 2020
MV Cambridge Ferry – Past and Present
MV Sirio, ex Ita Uno, Cambridge Ferry - Steel twin screw turbine steamer, built by Hawthorn Leslie (Shipbuilders) Ltd, Hebburn, England, (Yard No. 754) for the British Railways Board in 1965.
MV Nord Pas-de-Calais – Past and Present
Ferries
13th May 2021
MV Nord Pas-de-Calais – Past and Present
MV Al Andalus Express, ex Nord Pas-de-Calais, Seafrance Nord Pas-de-Calais, Nord Pas-de-Calais - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built by Chantiers du Nord et de la Méditerranée SA, Dunkirk, (Yard No 325)…
MV Vortigern – Past and Present
Ferries
10th March 2021
MV Vortigern – Past and Present
MV Limon, ex Nisos Limnos, Milos Express, Vortigern - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built by Swan, Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders (Yard No.10) at their Wallsend-on-Tyne yard for the British Railways Board…
MV Saint Germain – Past and Present
Ferries
28th April 2021
MV Saint Germain – Past and Present
MV Saint Germain - Steel twin screw motor vessel, built and engined by Helsingør Skibsværft og Maskinbyggeri A/S Helsingor, Denmark, (Yard No 303), for the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) in…
TS Shepperton Ferry – Past and Present
British Railways Board (BRB)
30th December 2021
TS Shepperton Ferry – Past and Present
TS Shepperton Ferry - Steel twin screw turbine steamer, one of three identical stern-loading railway ferry boats ordered by the Southern Railway in 1933 for their intended new Dover-Dunkirk ferry…
TS Hampton Ferry – Past and Present
Ferries
30th December 2021
TS Hampton Ferry – Past and Present
TS Tre-Arddur, ex Hampton Ferry, HMS Hampton - Steel twin screw turbine steamer, one of three identical stern-loading train ferries ordered by the Southern Railway in 1933. Built by Messrs.…
TS Twickenham Ferry – Past and Present
Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace (ALA)
30th December 2021
TS Twickenham Ferry – Past and Present
TS Twickenham Ferry - Steel twin screw turbine steamer, one of three identical stern-loading railway ferry boats ordered by the Southern Railway in 1933 for their intended new Dover-Dunkirk ferry…
The Dover Train Ferry Dock 1936-1988
Angleterre-Lorraine-Alsace (ALA)
23rd January 2022
The Dover Train Ferry Dock 1936-1988
In 1933 Southern Railway undertook to order three new train ferries and to construct a train ferry dock at Dover. It was agreed that a site, lying between the South Pier…
MV Anderida – Past and Present
Coopérative de Transport Maritime et Aérien (CTMA)
7th December 2021
MV Anderida – Past and Present
MV CTMA Voyageur, ex Anderida - Steel twin screw motor vessel built in 1972 at Trosvik Verksted A/S Brevik, Norway (Yard No 95) for Stena AB, Göteborg as a passenger…
