Date: 07/02/2015

Notebooks in hand, Andrew Barrow and his teenage son journey the length of Britain in a single day using the country’s longest rail route from Aberdeen to Penzance. And the pair find plenty to interest them, both outside and inside the carriage. [From Richard Buckby]

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Britain in a day: the longest train route in the country

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Notebooks in hand, Andrew Barrow and his teenage son journey the length of Britain in a single day using the countrys longest rail route from Aberdeen to Penzance. And the pair find plenty to interest them, both outside and inside the carriage

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