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This is quoted in the article as being 55.5 miles long - shurely shum mishtake!?109.94.137.1 (talk) 15:24, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It's a bit odd. By my calculations, St Pancras to Bristol Temple Meads, using the shortest Midland Railway route, is 219 miles 60 chains (353.7 km). If trains are routed via Olney, Stratford-upon-Avon and Evesham, we get:
MR St Pancras to Olney 60 mi 35 chains (97.3 km)
S&MJR Olney to Broome 55 mi 60 chains (89.7 km)
MR Broome to Bristol TM 68 mi 33 chains (110.1 km)
for a total of 184 mi 48 chains (297.1 km), which gives a saving of 35 miles 12 chains (56.6 km). So I would say that 55.5 is actually the length of the S&MJR route alone, rounded to 0.5 mile. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:21, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
