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click for transcript Hi channel. Today we're going on Britain's shortest train journey, that's right, the shortest train journey in Britain. That's because every other train journey is longer than this one - I should say longer in terms of distance rather than time. No other train journey traverses fewer metres than this journey, that's how short it is. You might think I should be at Covent Garden but no, Covent Garden to Leicester Square is merely the shortest tube journey and we can beat that. Those two stations are 260m apart, a tad shorter than Charing Cross to Embankment, and at both distances it's better to walk. But the London Underground is not where Britain's shortest train journey is because Britain's shortest train journey is somewhere else. The shortest train journey is not on National Rail either because I checked. Lots of rail journeys are really short like Newhaven Town to Newhaven Harbour or Ryde Pier Head to Ryde Esplanade or City Thameslink to Blackfriars. But those…

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