Classic route
Cornish Riviera Express
London → Penzance · United Kingdom
- Distance
- 491 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Great Western Railway
- Train
- Class 802 IET
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- In service since
- 1904
The daytime flyer to Britain’s far south-west since 1904, racing 300 miles past Dartmoor and along the wave-battered Dawlish sea wall to Penzance.
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