I think that is the height above the tunnel, rather than the height at the bottom of the cutting.
Further south near Wadhurst perhaps.
I stand corrected !
I am not convinced, though it is quite hard to follow the contour lines on the Ordnance Survey. I think that Crystal Palace is higher than Gospel Oak, despite the station being at a tunnel entrance. I've visited both many times over many years.
That’s interesting - I just assumed Parliament Hill because of the number of times I’ve seen freight stall there! But you may be right… I don’t know Crystal Palace… other side of London to me!
Just checked.
But where is the Brentwood height measured? The summit at Ingrave is in a cutting, whereas Elsenham is not.
According to the figures on railwaydata.co.uk, the highest point there is south of the tunnel at 18m 31ch 21yds. They list the summit as being 23yds north of the bridge over Llancoch Brook, although I don't know where they measure the bridge.
Stansted runway at the midpoint where the line goes underneath is elevation 348ft (107m), so how far under is the railway.
The railway is about the same when it gets to the station, which makes sense as it's in the open air for a bit between the tunnel and the station.
No it doesn't make sense, because the station is below the terminal. It isn't at runway level, which is 107m above sea level.
I only know what the web site I checked says. If you feel there's an error then I have no way to investigate your concern.
The link I included gave elevations in terms of being above or below some other point, rather than in comparison with sea level or something, so I couldn't compare the stations directly. The start of the BGK ERL is just the point taken to have an elevation of 0 for the line to Elsenham (which is also the line to the start of the Stansted branch). The branch itself has a separate "elevation 0" point.
Thanks for this.
800 feet surely?
Cobbinshaw Summit (880 feet ASL).
Purely from observation, when you go in to the airport from the car park, ground level there, you look down on the station tracks (well, I do) and go up the escalator to the terminal floor, which courtesy of 1980s architect Norman Foster is flat throughout. But look out of the opposite windows, when you eventually get there after slaloming to and fro through the duty-free 'bargains', and this floor is well above the aircraft apron. It doesn't seem unreasonable that the railway and the apron are at the same level, despite the former seemingly having required excavation. Rather by definition, if you are at a highest point of any sort the surrounding ground is unlikely to be pancake-flat. I suspect Mr Foster's designs provided plenty of work for bulldozers all around. One also understands that nowadays in tunnel design they are best done to a somewhat gable vertical alignment, so they naturally drain any penetrating groundwater outside, and hopefully on into the watercourses, without the need for mechanical pumping.
Southern Scotland's surprisingly* hilly as well; the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway beats any other adhesion railway in the UK.
Newry?
How does the top of Honiton Bank compare?
I believe the highest point on the old LSWR was Woody Bay, penultimate station on the old Lynton & Barnstaple narrow gauge, and when that closed in 1935 it was then nearby Mortehoe, again penultimate station on the Ilfracombe line. Both were characterised by then a steep fall to the terminus, which itself in both cases was well above the town.
True if you mean the Southern, but the L&B was not part of the LSWR.
Dunton?
Highest point (not station) on the Southern Rly after the L & B closed was near Sourton on the Okehampton - Plymouth line at 950ft. A 'N' class loco and train were snowed in for days here during the 1963 'Big Freeze'. For the GWR the highest point was Princetown on Dartmoor.
