Night train route
Night Riviera
London → Penzance · England
Night Riviera in pictures
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- Distance
- 491 km
- Fastest time
- 8 h
- Average speed
- 61 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Great Western Railway
- Train
- Class 57 with Mk3 sleepers
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1877
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Sleeping cars have run west from Paddington since 1877; today’s train hugs Brunel’s storm-lashed Dawlish sea wall to the far tip of Cornwall.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 125414 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 46 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 17 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Great Western Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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