Trains: My 49-mile and seven-and-a-half hour journey

BBC Journalist Jared Evitts took the most direct route by train between two towns 49-miles apart. It took him seven-and-a-half hours.

Carmarthen and Aberystwyth are the two biggest towns in west Wales. To drive directly from one to the other should take about an hour and 15 minutes.

However, since the railway line between them closed in 1965, you cannot go directly between them by train.