Classic route
Great Northern
London → King’s Lynn · England
From King’s Cross over the Cambridge line, complete in 1852, to Cambridge, then north across the fens by Ely, Downham Market and Watlington to King’s Lynn.
- Distance
- 160 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 45 min
- Average speed
- 91 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmLondon King's Cross +12
- 4 kmFinsbury Park
- 44 kmStevenage +1
- 51 kmHitchin
- 57 kmLetchworth Garden City
- 60 kmBaldock
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- 67 kmAshwell & Morden
- 73 kmRoyston
- 92 kmCambridge South +1
- 94 kmCambridge +1
- 98 kmCambridge North +1
- 103 kmWaterbeach +1
- 118 kmEly +1
- 127 kmLittleport
- 143 kmDownham Market
- 151 kmWatlington
- 160 kmKing's Lynn
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the Great Northern on 17 November 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6370444: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line passes within 149 m of every station Great Northern calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Great Northern?
The Great Northern runs 160 km from London to King’s Lynn.
How long does the Great Northern take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 45 min for the 160 km. That is an average of 91 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Great Northern?
Great Northern.
How old is the Great Northern?
The line has been in service since 1852. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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