Guide to rail network speed limits
Southern zone
Southern zone
Earlswood speed limit 20mph; Coulsden North-Quarry Tunnel 20; Shortlands 40; Petts Wood 50; Charing 40; Earlsfield 40; Wimbledon West Junction 50; Durnsford Rd Raynes Park 50; South Croydon 20; Wimbledon West Junction 20; Beaulieu Road Brokenhurst 40/50; St Johns 30; Nunhead-Crofton Road 20; Whitley 20; Dartford Junction Crayford Spur A 20/40; Greenhithe 20; Durmsford Wimbledon 20; Spa Road 40; Knockholt 50; Polhill 50; Eynsford 40/50; Clapham Earlsfield 40; Woodfordley 20.
Great Western zone
Clink Road and Fairwood Junction 30/70; Tiverton Loops and Richards Crossing 20; Hele and Bradninch LC and Tiverton Loops 20; Hyde Farm Crossing and Cogload Junction 20; Didcot East 20; Blatchbridge Junction and Clink Road Junction 70; Gwyn-yGaer LC and St Georges 50; Pewsey and Savernake 20; Thatcham CCTV 20; Twyford West 20; Didcot North-Didcot East Junction 20; Taunton East Junction 20; Clink Rd Fairwood Junction 20.
East Anglia zone
Lakenham 60; Ingatestone 20; Chelmsford 20; Colchester 20; Mellis 40; Seven Kings-Ipswich 20; Shenfield Ipswich 70; Ipswich 20; Witham 20; Elsenham & Newport 50; Bethnal Green-Hackney Downs 25/30; Harlow Mill-Sawbridgeworth 20; Bethnal Green-Bow Junction 20; Bow Junction-Stratford 40; Seven Kings 20; Romford Gidea Park 30; Shenfield Brentwood 20; Rayleigh 50; Tottenham Hale 20-30; White Hart Lane 30; Liverpool St-Shenfield 50; Manor Park Forest Gate 20; Thorpe-le-Soken Clacton 20.
London North East zone
Aycliffe-Ferryhill Sth Junction 50/75; Tursdale Het Mill 20; Bradbury 50/70; Ferryhill South 20; Durham 20; Durham Chester-le-Street 20); Regional Boundary Berwick N 20; Newton Hall 20; Marshall Meadow 20; Holloway 20; Hertford Branch 40/60; Finsbury Park-Wood Green 20; Hadley Wood-Potters Bar 20; Hatfield-Welwyn Garden City. 50/75; Welwyn North-Knebworth 20; Stevenage-Hitchen 20; Cambridge Junction-Cadwell 20; St Neots-St Neots North Junction 50/80; Wood Green-Hornsey 20; Wood Green-Harringey 20; Hatfield-Marshmoor 50/75; Digswell-Welwyn Garden City 20; Woolmer Green-Welwyn North 20; Stevenage-Knebworth 20; Hitchen Sth-Stevenage 20; Hitchen-Stevenage 20; Offord-Huntingdon 50/80; Tuxford GSP-Grassthorpe LC 50/80; Fletton-Crescent Jn 50/70; Helpston 50/80; Hett Mill 20; Egmanton 50/80; Maxey LC-Lolham LC 50/80; Greatford LC-Bytham FS 20; Neville Hill East-Cross Gates 20.
Midland zone
Kilburn 20; Watford Tunnel 20; Leighton Buzzard 20; Bletchley Lindslade 20; Long Buckby 50; Rugeley South 20; Atherstone 20; Shugborough 20; Stafford 20; Stafford 20; Norton Bridge 20; Lichfield-Hademore 20; Hartshill 20; Polesworth 20; Polesworth 20; Lichfield/Hademore 20; Cumberford 20; Heyford 20; Tipton 20; Aynho Junction 20; Irchester 20; Market Harborough 20; Kettering 20; Watkins LC & Kirby Bridge Junction 60; Brent Curve Hendon 20; Sharnbrook 20; Desborough 60; Little Eaton Junction 20; West Hampstead Cricklewood 20; Derby London Road Junction-Melbourne Junction 20; Tring 20; Monmore Green 5; Harbury 20; Northchurch 20; Hemel North 20; Berekswell 20.
North West zone
Golborne-Winwick 20; Southwaite 20; Tebay North Junction & Shap Summit 50/70; Harrisons Sidings & Shap Summit 20; Runcorn 20; Holmes Chapel 20.
Scotland zone
Rutherglen Junction & Newton West Junction 20; Lanark Junction-Ravenstruther 20; Carluke-Cleghorn 20; Bowling- Kilpatrick 20; Finnieston E-Hyndland 20; Kinghorn-Burnt Island 20; Carntyne and Bellgrove 20; Shieldmuir-Garriongill 20; Knightswood N-Finnieston E 20; Ayton 20; Inverurie-Oyne 20; Boundry-Reston 20; Boundry-Reston 20; Arbroath 20.
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