Classic route
West Anglia Main Line
Ely → London · England
From Ely through Cambridge and down the Lea Valley by Bishop’s Stortford, Broxbourne and Tottenham Hale; the line reached Ely in 1845 and its trains have run into Liverpool Street since 1874.
- Distance
- 113 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 62 km/h

Stations
- 0 kmEly +1
- 15 kmWaterbeach +1
- 20 kmCambridge North +1
- 24 kmCambridge +1
- 26 kmCambridge South +1
- 29 kmShelford
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- 34 kmWhittlesford Parkway
- 40 kmGreat Chesterford
- 46 kmAudley End
- 49 kmNewport
- 56 kmElsenham
- 59 kmStansted Mountfitchet
- 64 kmBishop's Stortford
- 70 kmSawbridgeworth
- 74 kmHarlow Mill
- 77 kmHarlow Town
- 81 kmRoydon
- 85 kmBroxbourne
- 96 kmBrimsdown
- 103 kmLondon Tottenham Hale
- 113 kmLondon Liverpool Street +1
The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the Greater Anglia on 17 November 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. 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 9107255: 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of train 76258
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the West Anglia Main Line?
The West Anglia Main Line runs 113 km from Ely to London.
How long does the West Anglia Main Line take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 1 h 50 min for the 113 km. That is an average of 62 km/h end to end.
Who runs the West Anglia Main Line?
Greater Anglia.
How old is the West Anglia Main Line?
The line has been in service since 1874. 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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