Heritage route
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Ravenglass → Dalegarth · England
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Fifteen-inch gauge up Eskdale from the Cumbrian coast, laid for iron ore in 1875 and run since as a miniature main line that Cumbria calls La’al Ratty.
Stations
- 0 kmDalegarth
- 1 kmBeckfoot
- 2 kmFisherground Halt
- 3 kmEskdale Green
- 4 kmIrton Road
- 7 kmMurthwaite Halt
- 8 kmMiteside Halt
- 9 kmMuncaster Mill
- 11 kmRavenglass (R&ER) +1
The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 10865339 — 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 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway?
The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway runs 11 km from Ravenglass to Dalegarth.
How long does the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 40 min for the 11 km. That is an average of 17 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway?
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, with 15 in gauge steam locomotives.
How old is the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway?
The line has been in service since 1875. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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