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Originally Posted by Master Cutler
A bit of a long shot, pardon the pun, but could it be associated with The Golden Arrow service;
The Golden Arrow (French: Flèche d’Or) 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 Flèche d’Or of the Chemin de Fer du Nord and later SNCF which took them on to Paris.
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Or could it have been a GCR employee? As early as 1899 the Great Central Railway propsed the building of a tunnel under the Channel & linking it to the GCR all the way through to Nottingham, Sheffield & Manchester. Maybe some staff went to France to work with the French railway companies (pre-SNCF I think) on the tunnel project, even though it didn't come to fruition (until the 1980s/90s).
Tony