Scenic route
Settle–Carlisle Line
Leeds → Carlisle · England
Settle–Carlisle Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 181 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Northern
- Train
- Class 158 Sprinter
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1876
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
England’s highest main line crests Ais Gill at 356 m after striding across the 24-arch Ribblehead Viaduct, built by navvies camped on Batty Moss.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 9902815 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of (Zug-Nr. 32441)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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