Scenic route
Kyle of Lochalsh Line
Inverness → Kyle of Lochalsh · Scotland
Kyle of Lochalsh Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 132 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 38 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- ScotRail
- Train
- Class 158
- Countries
- Scotland
- In service since
- 1897
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One of the world’s great scenic railways, blasted through Torridonian rock for 82 miles from Inverness to the Skye ferry pier at Kyle of Lochalsh.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1309210 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 69095)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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