Heritage route
The Jacobite
Fort William → Mallaig · Scotland
The Jacobite in pictures
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- Distance
- 67 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 31 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- West Coast Railways
- Train
- Black Five steam
- Countries
- Scotland
- In service since
- 1901
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Steam over the 21 arches of Glenfinnan on the 1901 Mallaig extension: the working train that became the Hogwarts Express, white sands of Morar below.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3224918 — 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 Transitous: our line sits 0.6 km from the shape of ScotRail
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in DE) ↗
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