The Chiltern Main Line
The Chiltern Main Line links 35 stations, with a top line speed of 100 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 215 miles, counting every running line |
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| Stations | 35 |
| Top line speed | 100 mph |
| Passengers a year | 44.7 million entries and exits across its stations |
| Engineer's Line Reference | DCL, NAJ2, NAJ3, NAJ1, MCJ1 |
No end-to-end length is given for this line because OpenStreetMap applies its name to several separate stretches of track, so any figure measured from the map data would be a fragment of the real route rather than the whole of it.
Stations on this line
- Birmingham Moor Street7.1 million a year
- Bordesley29,062 a year
- Small Heath224,446 a year
- Tyseley243,730 a year
- Acocks Green417,750 a year
- Olton462,908 a year
- Solihull1.9 million a year
- Widney Manor345,804 a year
- Dorridge824,680 a year
- Lapworth38,396 a year
- Hatton34,912 a year
- Warwick Parkway493,384 a year
- Warwick619,458 a year
- Leamington Spa2.5 million a year
- Banbury2.3 million a year
- Bicester North822,816 a year
- Haddenham and Thame Parkway888,752 a year
- Princes Risborough513,436 a year
- Saunderton69,922 a year
- High Wycombe2.2 million a year
- Beaconsfield1.1 million a year
- Seer Green and Jordans107,334 a year
- Gerrards Cross1.1 million a year
- Denham Golf Club33,726 a year
- Denham212,456 a year
- West Ruislip136,408 a year
- South Ruislip165,020 a year
- Northolt Park176,218 a year
- Sudbury Hill Harrow53,868 a year
- Sudbury & Harrow Road22,952 a year
- Wembley Stadium884,860 a year
- Brondesbury2.4 million a year
- West Hampstead3.9 million a year
- South Hampstead477,560 a year
- London Marylebone11.8 million a year
The busiest station on the line is London Marylebone, 11.8 million entries and exits a year and 40th busiest in Britain.
Freight on this line, hour by hour
Freight is booked over the Chiltern Main Line on 1,433 paths in the week beginning 12 October 2026: 271 paths on the Wednesday, 123 paths on the Saturday and 17 paths on the Sunday. 157 of them run whatever the traffic; the rest are held in the timetable and used only when there is something to move. The busiest hour is 23:00 to 00:00 on the Tuesday, with 29 paths booked.
The grid counts the goods trains booked to pass in each hour of the week beginning 12 October 2026: the darker the hour, the more paths, and a dot marks an hour with at least one path that runs regardless. Engineering trains, empty stock and light engines are not counted. Across Britain only about a fifth of booked freight paths run on a given day, so a booked path is a possibility rather than a promise; the freight statistics page explains how that is measured.
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Paths booked in the hournone12 to 34 to 78 to 1516 or moreone runs regardless
Lines it meets
Aylesbury–Princes Risborough Line, Didcot and Chester Line, Leamington to Stratford Line, London Euston to Crewe Line, North London Line, North Warwickshire Line, Proof House Junction and Bushbury Junction Line, Rugby Birmingham and Stafford Line, Watford DC line, West Coast Main Line.
Passenger figures are the Office of Rail and Road's estimates of station usage for 2024-25, added up across the stations on this line. They count entries and exits at those stations rather than journeys along the line, and a station served by more than one line is counted for each of them.
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