Caledonian Sleeper

The “Deerstalker Express”: fall asleep at Euston, wake up crossing Rannoch Moor with red deer at the window.

The Highland sleeper pulls out of Euston as one long train and quietly divides at Edinburgh in the small hours, its portions fanning out to Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William. The Fort William cars draw the romantics: by breakfast the CAF-built rooms, some with double beds and en-suite showers, are rolling past lochs that have never seen a road, porridge arriving as Loch Treig fills the window. It is the closest thing Europe offers to waking up inside a landscape painting.

Stations

1. 0 kmLondon Euston
2. 28 kmWatford Junction
3. 253 kmCrewe
4. 335 kmPreston
5. 707 kmGlasgow Queen Street (Low Level)
6. 722 kmDalmuir
7. Show 8 more stations

   1. 732 kmDumbarton Central
   2. 747 kmHelensburgh Upper
   3. 757 kmGarelochhead
   4. 774 kmArrochar and Tarbet
   5. 787 kmArdlui
   6. 801 kmCrianlarich
   7. 809 kmUpper Tyndrum
   8. 821 kmBridge of Orchy
8. 857 kmCorrour
9. 873 kmTulloch
10. 882 kmRoy Bridge
11. 887 kmSpean Bridge
12. 901 kmFort William

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

Along the way

• Club Car nightcap out of Euston
• small-hours split at Edinburgh Waverley
• Corrour summit at first light
• Loch Treig from your berth
• Monessie Gorge
• Ben Nevis into Fort William

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3224913 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 59 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 19 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: Caledonian Sleeper — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Caledonian Sleeper?

The Caledonian Sleeper runs 911 km from London to Fort William. It runs through England and Scotland.

How long does the Caledonian Sleeper take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 12 h 42 min for the 911 km. That is an average of 72 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 140 km/h.

Who runs the Caledonian Sleeper?

Caledonian Sleeper, with Mk 5 sleeper.

How old is the Caledonian Sleeper?

The line has been in service since 1873. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

How high does the Caledonian Sleeper climb?

410 m above sea level at its highest point.

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