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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown

UNCOVERED: Seven year old boy visits every city in england by train - The Untold Story

Austin at a train station
Austin visited all 55 English cities by train over the course of the year. Photograph: X/@ukrailadventure

An achievement for a lot of seven-year-olds in 2024 might have been riding a bike without stabilisers or tying their own shoelaces, but for one boy it was visiting every city in England with his dad by train.

Austin, seven, and his father, Ashley, “about 37”, began their quest by visiting Brighton in January and completed it with a trip to Ely three days before Christmas.

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