Timetabled trains through the best scenery in Britain. No booking months ahead: buy a ticket, check our strip map for the right side of the carriage, and go.
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Scenic lineEngland's most celebrated main line, climbing from the Yorkshire Dales over Ribblehead Viaduct and Ais Gill summit into the Eden Valley.
Scenic lineOften voted the world's most scenic railway: Loch Lomond, Rannoch Moor, Ben Nevis and Glenfinnan Viaduct on one ordinary ScotRail ticket.
Scenic lineCoast-to-coast across the Highlands from Inverness to the Skye ferry port, ending on a shelf blasted along the shore of Loch Carron.
Scenic lineAcross mid Wales by Talerddig summit to the Dovey estuary, then along Cardigan Bay over Barmouth Bridge to Harlech and the Llŷn Peninsula.
Scenic lineA slow, single-track wander through the empty hills of mid Wales, with the Sugar Loaf summit, Cynghordy Viaduct and 30 mostly request-stop stations.
Scenic lineBrunel's railway along the Exe estuary and the open sea at Dawlish and Teignmouth, the most photographed stretch of main line in Britain.
Scenic lineBritain's most northerly railway, wandering 168 miles from Inverness along firths and through the Flow Country to Thurso and Wick.
Scenic lineThe other arm of the West Highland Line, dividing at Crianlarich and running past Loch Awe and the Pass of Brander to the ferry port of Oban.
Scenic lineOver the Grampians via the Pass of Drumochter, at 1,484 feet the highest point on Britain's main-line network, to the Cairngorms and Inverness.
Scenic lineBritain's longest new domestic railway for a century, reopened in 2015 along the Waverley Route from Edinburgh through the Moorfoots to Tweedbank.
Scenic lineFrom the seaside at Llandudno up the Conwy estuary and the wooded Lledr valley into the slate mountains at Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Scenic lineAlong the Dee estuary and the North Wales shore past Conwy Castle, through Stephenson's tubular bridge and across Anglesey to the Irish ferry at Holyhead.
Scenic lineA little-known coastal route round the western edge of the Lakes, running on the beach at St Bees and Seascale with fells one side and sea the other.
Scenic lineThe short branch from the West Coast Main Line at Oxenholme through Kendal and Staveley to Windermere, the rail gateway to the Lake District.
Scenic lineFrom Teesside up the winding Esk valley through the North York Moors to the harbour town of Whitby, crossing the river a dozen times on the way.
Scenic lineThrough the Peak District from Sheffield to Manchester via Totley and Cowburn tunnels, Hathersage, Castleton's Hope Valley and Edale under Kinder Scout.
Scenic lineCoast to coast along Hadrian's Wall country, following the Tyne through Hexham and Haltwhistle to Carlisle on one of the world's oldest railways.
Scenic lineFour miles along the cliffs above Carbis Bay and Porthminster beach to St Ives, widely rated the most beautiful branch line in England.
Scenic lineA twisting single-track branch that reverses at Coombe Junction and follows the tidal East Looe river down a wooded valley to the fishing port of Looe.
Scenic lineOut of Plymouth beside the Tamar, over the 120-foot Calstock Viaduct and up a steep, reversing branch into the old mining country around Gunnislake.
Scenic lineThrough the china clay country and the wooded Luxulyan valley, under Treffry's viaduct, to the surfing beaches of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast.
Scenic lineFollowing the rivers Yeo and Taw through mid Devon's farmland, named after Henry Williamson's otter, to Barnstaple and the Tarka Trail.
Scenic lineOut of Norwich through the Broads at Wroxham to the North Norfolk coast at Cromer and Sheringham, where the North Norfolk Railway takes over.
Scenic lineTwo flat lines through the heart of the Broads past Reedham and Berney Arms, the loneliest station in England, to Norfolk's east coast resorts.
Scenic lineThrough the Evenlode valley and the Cotswold hills from Oxford by Charlbury, Kingham and Moreton-in-Marsh to Evesham, Worcester and the Malverns.
Scenic lineBoard in London in the evening and wake up crossing Rannoch Moor: the Highlander portion to Fort William is Britain's only scheduled scenic sleeper.
Scenic lineAcross the Pennines from the Dales to Morecambe Bay by way of Giggleswick, Clapham and the Three Peaks, on the old Little North Western.
Scenic lineThrough the mill towns of the Calder valley, Hebden Bridge, Todmorden and the Summit Tunnel, on the first railway across the Pennines.
Scenic lineDown the Ayrshire coast past Troon and Ayr, then through the Galloway hills by Barrhill and the lonely Glenwhilly summit to the old ferry port of Stranraer.
Scenic lineAround the edge of Morecambe Bay on long low viaducts across the Kent and Leven estuaries, past Grange-over-Sands and Ulverston to Barrow.
Scenic lineAlong the England–Wales border through Abergavenny, Hereford, Leominster and Ludlow, with the Black Mountains and Shropshire hills for company.
Scenic lineUp the Derwent through the mills of the World Heritage Site at Belper and Cromford to Matlock Bath and Matlock, at the gateway to the Peak.