High-speed route
Javelin North Kent
London → Margate · England
- Distance
- 120 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 29 min
- Average speed
- 81 km/h
- Top speed
- 225 km/h
- Operator
- Southeastern
- Train
- Class 395 Javelin
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 2009
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The other Javelin to Margate: off HS1 at Ebbsfleet onto the 1846 North Kent line — Rochester’s castle and cathedral, Faversham’s breweries, then the seaside string of Whitstable, Herne Bay and Margate.
How this line was checked
- The 82 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 452775 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, 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: Southeastern — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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