The East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line links 54 stations, with a top line speed of 125 mph.
See the East Coast Main Line on the live map
The map draws the line on its own, names every station along it, and shows the trains running on it right now.
The line in numbers
| Track | about 1,056 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 54 |
| Top line speed | 125 mph |
| Passengers a year | 174.9 million entries and exits across its stations |
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
- Edinburgh Waverley22.8 million a year
- Musselburgh461,092 a year
- Wallyford349,262 a year
- Prestonpans257,514 a year
- Longniddry205,200 a year
- Drem152,528 a year
- East Linton66,982 a year
- Dunbar416,356 a year
- Reston29,896 a year
- Berwick-upon-Tweed707,310 a year
- Chathill1,580 a year
- Alnmouth378,954 a year
- Acklington856 a year
- Widdrington2,652 a year
- Morpeth622,614 a year
- Pegswood1,468 a year
- Cramlington183,856 a year
- Newcastle10.5 million a year
- Manors63,914 a year
- Chester-le-Street232,324 a year
- Durham2.8 million a year
- Darlington2.8 million a year
- Northallerton797,766 a year
- Thirsk288,024 a year
- York10.5 million a year
- Doncaster4.5 million a year
- Retford602,590 a year
- Newark Northgate1.1 million a year
- Grantham1.5 million a year
- Peterborough5.3 million a year
- Huntingdon1.6 million a year
- St Neots1.1 million a year
- Sandy679,484 a year
- Biggleswade894,928 a year
- Arlesey688,476 a year
- Hitchin2.9 million a year
- Stevenage4.7 million a year
- Knebworth436,866 a year
- Welwyn North386,640 a year
- Welwyn Garden City2.5 million a year
- Hatfield2.5 million a year
- Welham Green253,196 a year
- Brookmans Park275,238 a year
- Potters Bar2.5 million a year
- Hadley Wood362,264 a year
- New Barnet1.3 million a year
- Oakleigh Park924,194 a year
- New Southgate920,392 a year
- Alexandra Palace1.9 million a year
- Hornsey1.7 million a year
- Harringay1.1 million a year
- Finsbury Park11.2 million a year
- London St. Pancras International38.8 million a year
- London King's Cross27.7 million a year
The busiest station on the line is London St. Pancras International, 38.8 million entries and exits a year and 11th busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Blyth and Tyne Line, East Coast (Northern) Line, Edinburgh and Glasgow Main Line, Ely to Peterborough Line, Hertford Loop Line, Northern City Line, Sheffield to Lincoln Line, St Pancras to Chesterfield Line, Tees Valley Line, Thameslink.
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.