Classic route
Brighton Main Line
London → Brighton · England
Brighton Main Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 82 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 55 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- Govia Thameslink
- Train
- Southern · Thameslink Electrostar
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1841
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Victorian London’s dash to the sea, once home of the all-Pullman Brighton Belle — still under the hour from Victoria to the pier and the Lanes.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.7 km from the shape of Gatwick Express
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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