Fastest Times Listing

The RPS has been regularly publishing details of Fastest Times between selected stations in the UK in a special supplement distributed with Milepost on an annual basis. Following the success of the Great Britain edition, coverage was extended to countries operating high speed train services around the world.

This was subsequently extended further to include selections of domestic main line services in France, Spain, Germany, Ireland and Australia. RPS members can order a hard paper copy, or view electronic versions of these documents. The current publications are: Great Britain,  Overseas and Historic.

GB Fastest Times:

An annual supplement of the GB times is produced each April giving the full list of records for all routes. Links to the 2005 editions are shown below. A cumulative supplement to this is then issued with the October issue of Milepost listing only those records that have changed since the last annual edition. It is hoped that the files on the site will be updated when a significant number of changes have been made to keep the data as fresh as possible. A '#' in the left or right hand columns indicate that a time has improved since the last annual publication.

Most areas of the country are now covered in some way or another, with separate tables for each line or groups of line.

A recent addition, in September 2006, has been a listing of ‘Special’ runs – some of these are press runs and others record attempts.

Click on the links below to access the latest fastest times recorded by RPS members and submitted for publication.

NOTE: If you are RPS member, a 'members fastest times' submenu will appear in the navigation bar on the left hand side of the screen, with links to the full version of these documents. If you are an RPS member and can't see the extra submenu, you are either not logged in, or your user status has not been upgraded to allow access. Please contact the webmaster in the event of any difficulty.

Overseas Fastest Times:

The previous coverage of European high speed lines in France, Spain and Germany has been retained. To these have been added coverage of IE (Irish Railways), Belfast to Londonderry, SNCF Grandes Lignes and Secondaries (shown together as Grandes Lignes), additional coverage of other routes in Spain, main line services in Germany and some coverage of lines in Australia.

The Overseas supplement is issued in July, it should be noted that there is an additional charge for the Overseas Supplement - this covers both Fastest Times and the SNCF distance charts.

Historic

The RPS Historical Fastest Times are available from a separate website which is managed by Bevan Price (one of our longstanding members). The initial offering includes Deltics, Peaks (and 47's) on the Midland, diesels from Waterloo to Exeter and diesels in North Wales.