And your point is in relation to this thread?Culrain to Invershin on the Far North line is 34 chains either side of the Shin viaduct. By road it is 8.8 miles!
40mph max speed for the stock.Just 29 chains between Turnham Green and Stamford Brook. What sort of maximum line speed might non-stop Piccadilly line trains be doing on that stretch of LU line?
It's 50mph for units over that stretch and 36 chains between them.Indeed it will. Slightly over half a mile between those two stations, i.e. Exton and Lympstone Commando, so at 60 mph, it would take just over 30 secs. What's the actual max line speed on that stretch of the Avocet line?
Inclined to disagree (although an argument could perhaps be made either way), given that maximum line speeds on the heavy rail network are usually still quoted in miles per hour, distances between stations have historically been measured in miles (with chains being the sub-unit used) and combining metric distances and imperial speeds would then be a tad tricky if then trying to do a quick calculation to determine the time elapsed when travelling between one station and the next, as per the topic of this thread.Do we really need to refer to distances in chains? I think metres would be easier for most people to understand.
0.4 miles or 643.7 meters between them according to google maps.[
It's 50mph for units over that stretch and 36 chains between them.
A chain is the length of a cricket pitch, 22 yards. 22 multiplied by 80 equals 1760, the number of yards in a mile.A useful conversion is a chain is almost exactly 20 metres (20.1m)
38 chains, so just under half a mile.Prestwick Town and Prestwick Airport, dont think theres any non stoppers but very short.
64 chains between Llanishen and Lisvane & Thornhill, so just over three quarters of a mile.As an aside, there can't be more than a minute between Llanishen and Lisvane & Thornhill on the Rhymney Line in South Wales. Trains have always stopped there as far as I'm aware but, currently many are passing through these stations between Caerphilly and Queen Street. If only the line speeds were a bit higher it would be a very quick pass!
They are close together, but the low line speed means even non-stopping trains take over a minute.Culrain to Invershin on the Far North line is 34 chains either side of the Shin viaduct. By road it is 8.8 miles!
Quite correct, I only added Llanishen and Lisvane because currently there are a good few that do not stop between Caerphilly and Queen Street temporarily, but I don't think that has been introduced on the City Line.64 chains between Llanishen and Lisvane & Thornhill, so just over three quarters of a mile.
Ty Glas to Birchgrove on the nearby Coryton line at 17 chains, (under a quarter of a mile) much closer, but presumably also no non-stoppers.
Watford DC was stretching it a bit, this is even more! I know they're parallel, but they're not the same line here, surely a requirement?How about a Euorstar train passing both Westenhanger and Sandling at the linespeed of 300Km/h. Those stations are 2Km apart so it would take just 24 seconds.
Yes I know, but this is a trivia thread.Watford DC was stretching it a bit, this is even more! I know they're parallel, but they're not the same line here, surely a requirement? ...
Seems to be timed for ~1 minute, and the low speed will hamper it compared to the of the others.Lelant Saltings and Lelant on the St Ives line, 321m 49ch to 322m 06ch.
Line Speed is 90 mph through the Garforths which are 47 chains apart. Therefore it is possible to pass though them 23.5 seconds apart, quick but not as quick as the Penge and Huyton-Roby examples. Carnoustie - Golf Street however is 19.35 seconds at 100mph.These two Yorkshire stations are slightly further apart than Hillington East / Cardonald in Scotland, at approximately just under three-quarters of a mile distance, so the minimum time taken to pass through the two would depend on the maximum line speed permitted on that section of track out of Leeds.