Classic route
CrossCountry
Aberdeen → Plymouth · Scotland · England
CrossCountry in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,118 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 97 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- CrossCountry
- Train
- Class 220 Voyager
- Countries
- Scotland, England
- In service since
- 2025
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Britain’s longest direct train: one Voyager grinding 695 miles and nearly 40 stops from Aberdeen on the North Sea to Plymouth on the Channel.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 21118493 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 90 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 28 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 207 m of every station CrossCountry 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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