The Great Western Main Line
The Great Western Main Line links 33 stations, with a top line speed of 125 mph.
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The line in numbers
| Track | about 398 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 33 |
| Top line speed | 125 mph |
| Passengers a year | 174.0 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
- Exeter St Thomas329,086 a year
- Exeter St Davids2.9 million a year
- Marsh Barton108,848 a year
- Starcross107,218 a year
- Dawlish Warren248,086 a year
- Tiverton Parkway682,906 a year
- Bristol Temple Meads10.9 million a year
- Keynsham566,218 a year
- Oldfield Park385,994 a year
- Bath Spa6.5 million a year
- Chippenham1.7 million a year
- Swindon3.2 million a year
- Didcot Parkway2.9 million a year
- Goring & Streatley360,440 a year
- Pangbourne373,542 a year
- Cholsey275,420 a year
- Tilehurst385,312 a year
- Reading14.3 million a year
- Twyford1.8 million a year
- Maidenhead4.9 million a year
- Taplow528,968 a year
- Burnham1.7 million a year
- Slough5.5 million a year
- Langley1.2 million a year
- Iver362,658 a year
- West Drayton3.5 million a year
- Hayes and Harlington8.5 million a year
- Southall7.7 million a year
- Hanwell1.7 million a year
- West Ealing2.5 million a year
- Ealing Broadway15.5 million a year
- Acton Main Line2.7 million a year
- London Paddington69.9 million a year
The busiest station on the line is London Paddington, 69.9 million entries and exits a year and 3rd busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Bristol to Exeter Line, Bristol to Taunton Line, Didcot and Chester Line, Elizabeth Line, Marlow Branch Line, North Downs Line, Regatta Line, South Devon Main Line, West of England 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.