Heritage route
West Somerset Railway
Bishops Lydeard → Minehead · England
West Somerset Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 37 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 28 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- West Somerset Railway
- Train
- Heritage steam
- Countries
- England
- In service since
- 1976
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Britain’s longest standard-gauge independent heritage railway: 22¾ miles of steam from the Quantock Hills down to the Bristol Channel shore at Minehead.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 163857 — 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
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: West Somerset Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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