Classic route
Midland Main Line
London → Nottingham · England
Midland Main Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 205 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 123 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- East Midlands Railway
- Train
- EMR Intercity (Class 810 · 222)
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1868
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
St Pancras’s own intercity: the Midland Main Line under Barlow’s great arch, up through Bedford and Leicester to Nottingham — Britain’s last classic trunk to join the atlas.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6397710 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: East Midlands Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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