Classic route
LNER Azuma
London → Edinburgh · England · Scotland
LNER Azuma in pictures
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- Distance
- 632 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 146 km/h
- Top speed
- 201 km/h
- Operator
- LNER
- Train
- Class 800 Azuma
- Countries
- England, Scotland
- In service since
- 1862
- Runs
- every 30 min
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Flying Scotsman’s route since 1862: and where Mallard set the never-beaten steam record of 203 km/h in 1938.
The East Coast Main Line has been racing to Scotland since 1862, when the Flying Scotsman first left King’s Cross at 10:00: a departure kept for over a century. Azumas now do the run in around four and a quarter hours, past the great cathedral view at Durham, over the Tyne into Newcastle, then along the Northumberland cliffs to cross Robert Stephenson’s Royal Border Bridge at Berwick. The finale into Waverley, under Arthur’s Seat and the Old Town skyline, is the best station approach in Britain.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6334044 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 33 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: LNER — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- York’s great curved trainshed
- Durham cathedral above the Wear
- Newcastle’s Tyne bridges
- Alnmouth estuary
- Royal Border Bridge at Berwick
- Arthur’s Seat into Waverley
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