Heritage route
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
Ravenglass → Dalegarth · England
- Distance
- 11 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 40 min
- Average speed
- 17 km/h
- Operator
- Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
- Train
- 15 in gauge steam locomotives
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1875
- Riders per year
- ≈ 120k
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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