Cornish Riviera Express

The daytime flyer to Britain’s far south-west since 1904, racing 300 miles past Dartmoor and along the wave-battered Dawlish sea wall to Penzance.

Stations

1. 0 kmLondon Paddington +3
2. 58 kmReading +3
3. 228 kmTaunton +2
4. 251 kmTiverton Parkway +2
5. 277 kmExeter St Davids +4
6. 309 kmNewton Abbot +2
7. Show 7 more stations

   1. 323 kmTotnes +2
   2. 360 kmPlymouth +2
   3. 388 kmLiskeard +1
   4. 403 kmBodmin Parkway +1
   5. 408 kmLostwithiel +1
   6. 415 kmPar +1
   7. 422 kmSt Austell +1
8. 445 kmTruro +1
9. 460 kmRedruth +1
10. 465 kmCamborne +1
11. 477 kmSt Erth +1
12. 486 kmPenzance +1

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. 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 125414 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 46 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 17 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of the scheduled train on this line
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Cornish Riviera Express?

The Cornish Riviera Express runs 491 km from London to Penzance.

How long does the Cornish Riviera Express take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 5 h for the 491 km. That is an average of 98 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 200 km/h.

Who runs the Cornish Riviera Express?

Great Western Railway, with Class 802 IET.

How old is the Cornish Riviera Express?

The line has been in service since 1904. 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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