Classic route
InterCity
Dublin → Limerick · Ireland
- Distance
- 200 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Iarnród Éireann
- Train
- Class 22000 ICR
- Countries
- Ireland
- In service since
- 1848
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Leaves the Dublin–Cork main line at Limerick Junction, a curious station where trains long had to reverse, before the final run to the Shannon at Limerick.
How this line was checked
- The 82 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5598606 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 14 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IC 412
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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