What’s the longest train journey that you can do in the UK?  According to the Daily Telegraph it’s Aberdeen to Penzance in 13 and a half hours.

All you USA and Canada readers will laugh at this.  That’s just down the road to the corner shop when you are talking transcontinental at the speed of a North American passenger train.

This article describes the route and it sounds a lot more interesting than I suspect it really is.  I’ve plotted it on the map below.  I hope they didn’t leave the car in the station car park in Aberdeen.