Scenic route
Cumbrian Coast Line
Carlisle → Barrow-in-Furness · England
Cumbrian Coast Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 137 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 51 km/h
- Top speed
- 95 km/h
- Operator
- Northern
- Train
- Northern Class 156
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1850
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
England’s forgotten coastal railway: the Irish Sea one side, the Lakeland fells the other, all the way round from Hadrian’s city to shipbuilding Barrow.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 80.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 13 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.9 km from the shape of Northern
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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