What is britains longest train journey?

Question

What is britains longest train journey?

Answer 1

Euston to Inverness or Fort William on the sleeper service or  Penzance to Glasgow daytime service. On a Saturday you can travel Penzance to Aberdeen which takes about 13 hours.

Answer 2

My guess would be at John O' Groats to Penzance or the nearest railway station to them landmarks.

Answer 3

I think its Aberdeen to Penzance in one continuous journey, on the same train

Answer 4

The longest distance you travel on one train in the UK, is the 8-30pm Caledonian Sleeping Car Train that leaves London Euston every night to travel to Scotland.   The train has about 14 sleeping cars on it.    When it gets to a railway junction called Mossend near Motherwell the train is split into three portions.    One portion goes to Inverness, over 550miles from London, and reaches the Highlands Capital city at 8-30am the following morning.  The other portions go to Fort William, just over 500 miles from London reaching there at 9-52am.   And the other portion travels the shorter distance to Aberdeen/Dundee.

So you can get on the train in London go to sleep and wake up in the far north.   This is the longest train journey, any of Virgins  Cornwall to Scotland routes require you to change trains on a number of occasions.

Answer 5

On a wet and boring Sunday I had a chance to be really silly and try to find the longest permissable journey in the Uk on the Rail Computer System known as RJIS (Rail Journey Information System) which most ticket office's and Network rail have.

So Typing in St Ives, to a place just outside of Fort William in Scotland (strange name cant remember) via Faygate in Mid Sussex with upto 6 changes gained the most time at just over 37hrs. Which is St Ives to Penzance, Penzance to Reading, Reading to Horsham, Horsham to London Victoria, Tube to Euston, London Euston to Fort William. Cost was something like £400 for a single.

Never beat that one although I tried lots of variations.

Answer 6

Virgin runs trains from Penzance to Glasgow via Birmingham and Wigan at 0730 arriving at 1719 and at 0830 to Dundee via Birmingham, Derby, Leeds and Edinburgh arriving at 2025. They also run another Glasgow service 2 hours later.

Answer 7

The longest continuous daytime journey in Britain is from London Kings Cross to Inverness in The Scottish Highlands, on GNER, which takes 8 hours and 5 minutes on the Highland Chieftan train which departs every weekday and Saturday at Midday from Kings Cross and 7.55am from Inverness respectively.

The train runs on Sunday as well, but takes slightly longer, and most weeks are scheduled to engineering works on a part of the line.

The lonest non stop journey is also on GNER from London Kings Cross to York.

Answer 8

Without changing trains, that would have to be London - Inverness.  With changes of train, then Penzance - Wick.