Why I ditched the car and took the sleeper train to Cornwall
Platform 1 at Paddington Station isn't where I'd normally be at 11pm on a Monday night, but I'm here for a good reason. I'm about to take the Great Western Railway's Night Riviera Sleeper from London to Penzance in Cornwall, at the tip of Britain's south-west peninsula.
I have been visiting Cornwall since I could not walk. I have taken the regular train, the bus and the chaos of the summer traffic jam by car more times than I can count.
But I never thought about it take a sleeper train as an option so far. Turns out this was ...