Pier Trains

There are three piers in Britain that are known to have working railed trains running on them. The most famous one is Southend on sea. The pier itself is extremely long 2.15 km (1.34 miles) and the train will take you most of the way across the pier. They claim to be the longest pleasure pier in the world. From my experience, the starting platform at the beginning of the pier has the look and feel of an old subsurface metropolitan subway station. 

The Ryde Pier on the Isle of wight has a more practical pier train. It is used to bring people to the catamaran ferry that goes back to the mainland and the bring people from the ferry back to the coast. 

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Hyther pier in Hampshire is the oldest working pier train line in the world. 

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Sleeper Trains

Despite the Island of Britain being small; (less than 250,000 km² in area. The longest measurement of the island is less than 1000km) There are multiple sleeper trains available, the Caledonian Sleeper and Reviera Sleeper to name a few. You go on the train and sleep in a small hotel room overnight and wake up in the morning at your destination. 

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The Caledonian sleeper goes from London to various Scottish cities and towns and back again. 

The reviera Sleeper goes from London to Penzance and back again.