Classic route
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Dublin → Cork · Ireland
- Distance
- 266 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 118 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Iarnród Éireann
- Train
- Mark 4 push-pull
- Countries
- Ireland
- In service since
- 1849
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Heuston to Kent in 2 h 15 on Mark 4 push-pull sets, over the 1849 Great Southern and Western main line through Limerick Junction and Mallow.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 390986 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IC 202
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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