Scenic route
Hope Valley Line
Sheffield → Manchester · England
Hope Valley Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 68 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Average speed
- 82 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Northern
- Train
- Northern · TPE Nova
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Straight through the Peak District: Edale, Kinder Scout and the Hope valley between England’s steel and cotton cities — the hikers’ line.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9388690 — 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 0.1 km from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 24768)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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