The 43-year-old’s journey started with a taxi ride from Land’s End to Penzance where he caught a train to London Paddington.

The entire round trip spanned 2175 miles and took him 49 hours and 49 minutes to complete.

Peter, from Epsom, Surrey, is raising cash for the Mary Hare School for deaf children in Newbury, which he once attended, and aims to raise awareness of how accessible rail travel is to people regardless of disability.

A self-confessed rail enthusiast, Peter said: “It was a fantastic trip – I particularly enjoyed my stretch from Inverness to Wick in the Highlands of Scotland.”

“The Thurso/John o’ Groats/Wick elements at the half way point were the trickiest of the entire journey.  In order to get to John o’ Groats and catch my connection from Wick to Inverness I decided to get off at Thurso and use a taxi to get to John o’ Groats and then Wick.  The timing was tight and should I have missed the train from Wick, the whole attempt would have been in tatters.”

He added: “I am extremely proud to become the first person to complete the return journey between Land’s End and John o’ Groats by public transport.”

Peter’s journey started on Monday (June 14) at 1.15pm with a taxi ride from Land’s End to Penzance.  He then caught a train to London Paddington and a quick tube ride to Euston.

He took the Caledonian Sleeper service to Inverness and then a local service to Thurso.  A taxi transported Peter from Thurso to John o’ Groats where he arrived at 2.55pm on Tuesday (June 15).  

The taxi dropped him off at Wick station and he embarked upon exactly the same route back to Land’s End but with an added stop in Plymouth.  He completed the trip on Wednesday (June 16) at 2.57pm.