Classic route
Great Western Main Line
London → Bristol · United Kingdom
- Distance
- 190 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 19 min
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Great Western Railway
- Train
- Class 800 IET
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- In service since
- 1841
Brunel’s original 1841 main line — famously flat and straight, boring dead-level through the 3 km Box Tunnel, said to face the sunrise on his birthday.
View on the interactive world map →More classic routes
- LNER Azuma London → Edinburgh
- Alfa Pendular Lisbon → Porto
- EIP Pendolino Warsaw → Kraków
- Railjet Vienna → Budapest