Scenic route
Cambrian Line
Birmingham → Aberystwyth · England · Wales
Cambrian Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 200 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Transport for Wales
- Train
- TfW Class 197
- Countries
- England, Wales
- In service since
- 1864
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Birmingham to the Irish Sea over the Cambrian Mountains: Welshpool, the Talerddig summit cutting, Machynlleth and the estuary into Aberystwyth.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 454579 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 85 m of every station TfW Rail calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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