The Welsh Marches Line
The Welsh Marches Line links 9 stations, with a top line speed of 90 mph.
See the Welsh Marches 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 147 miles, counting every running line |
|---|---|
| Stations | 9 |
| Top line speed | 90 mph |
| Passengers a year | 5.3 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
- Cwmbran431,856 a year
- Pontypool and New Inn127,216 a year
- Abergavenny423,316 a year
- Hereford1.2 million a year
- Leominster260,220 a year
- Ludlow271,100 a year
- Craven Arms99,908 a year
- Church Stretton123,462 a year
- Shrewsbury2.3 million a year
The busiest station on the line is Shrewsbury, 2.3 million entries and exits a year and 251st busiest in Britain.
Lines it meets
Shrewsbury and Crewe Line, Shrewsbury to Chester Line, Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury 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.