Scenic route
Cumbrian Coast Line
Carlisle → Barrow-in-Furness · England
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.
- Distance
- 137 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 51 km/h
- Top speed
- 95 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmCarlisle +4
- 8 kmDalston
- 19 kmWigton
- 36 kmAspatria
- 48 kmMaryport
- 53 kmFlimby
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- 59 kmWorkington
- 62 kmHarrington
- 67 kmParton
- 69 kmWhitehaven
- 71 kmCorkickle
- 78 kmSt Bees
- 82 kmNethertown
- 84 kmBraystones
- 88 kmSellafield
- 91 kmSeascale
- 97 kmRavenglass +1
- 104 kmBootle
- 117 kmMillom
- 121 kmGreen Road
- 127 kmKirkby-in-Furness
- 132 kmAskam
- 141 kmBarrow-in-Furness
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 83.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.5 km from the shape of train 85599
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Cumbrian Coast Line?
The Cumbrian Coast Line runs 137 km from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness.
How long does the Cumbrian Coast Line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 2 h 40 min for the 137 km. That is an average of 51 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 95 km/h.
Who runs the Cumbrian Coast Line?
Northern.
How old is the Cumbrian Coast Line?
The line has been in service since 1850. 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.
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