Classic route
Great Western Main Line
London → Bristol · England
Great Western Main Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 190 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 19 min
- Average speed
- 144 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Great Western Railway
- Train
- Class 800 IET
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1841
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brunel’s original 1841 main line: billiard-table levels from Paddington to Didcot, then a 1 in 100 fall through the 3 km Box Tunnel, said to face the sunrise on his birthday.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 183757 — 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: Great Western Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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