Classic route
Great Eastern Main Line
London → Norwich · England
Great Eastern Main Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 185 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 101 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Greater Anglia
- Train
- Stadler FLIRT intercity
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1849
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
“Norwich in 90”: East Anglia’s main line across Constable country with its all-new Swiss-built FLIRT fleet — a whole English region in one green run.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10078128 — 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 86606)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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