to let my 11 year old daughter go on a train journey on her own?

[BeattieBow]

throwing this open to the MN jury!

my dd who was 11 in October (so y 6) is in Brighton currently with her father and siblings. she wants to stay a day longer and come back on the train on her own. she would be put on the train at Brighton and picked up at Victoria.She is a sensible girl. She comes home from school on her own once a week and stays in the house until we get home (around an hour). She is also left on her own at the weekends if she is still in bed. I would let her go to the local shop or on the tube a couple of stops but she refuses - I think through laziness rather than being scared.

What would you do?

Sounds fine me. It's the end of the line so she can't miss her stop.

Your could g to the station at your end with her and look around and pick your meeting point beforehand, so she knows where "the cheese shop" is, and doesn't get confused if there are two branches of WHSmith, that kind of thing.

I'd let her. Especially as it is an "end to end" journey..no chance of forgetting her stop and ending up in John O'Groats. I'd probably be a bit "eeeeek" at myself and all the things that might happen, but she sounds keen and capable.