Heritage route
Great Central Railway
Loughborough → Leicester North · England
Great Central Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 13 km
- Fastest time
- 50 min
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Great Central Railway
- Train
- Preserved express steam & Mk1 coaches
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1899
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Britain’s only double-track heritage main line, where two steam expresses can pass at speed just as they did on the last main line built towards the Continent.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 165267 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Great Central Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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