Classic route
Edinburgh–Glasgow Express
Glasgow → Edinburgh · Scotland
Edinburgh–Glasgow Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 76 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 101 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- ScotRail
- Train
- ScotRail Class 385
- Countries
- Scotland
- In service since
- 1842
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Scotland’s busiest corridor since 1842: four electric expresses an hour between its two great cities over the Falkirk high route.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6418437 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line passes within 62 m of every station ScotRail 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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