Classic route
North Wales Coast Line
London → Holyhead · England · Wales
North Wales Coast Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 425 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 111 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- Avanti West Coast · TfW
- Train
- Avanti Class 805
- Countries
- England, Wales
- In service since
- 1850
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The old Irish Mail route to the Dublin ferries, crossing Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge to Anglesey and skirting the walls of Conwy Castle.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 289291 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 122 m of every station Avanti calls at (the planner's own shape was too coarse to measure a line against)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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