Scenic route
Far North Line
Inverness → Wick · Scotland
Far North Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 259 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 21 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- ScotRail
- Train
- Class 158
- Countries
- Scotland
- In service since
- 1874
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Britain’s most northerly line, a lonely 4-hour run to Wick that swings far inland on the Lairg Loop to dodge the deep Highland sea firths.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 416029 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 15068)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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