Scenic route
West Somerset Railway
Bishops Lydeard → Minehead · United Kingdom
- Distance
- 37 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- West Somerset Railway
- Train
- Heritage steam
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- In service since
- 1976
Britain’s longest heritage railway — nearly 23 miles of steam from the Quantock Hills down to the Bristol Channel shore at Minehead.
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