Harvey Price sets new Guinness world record with train drawing

The lad of exemplary Katie Price has acceptable a Guinness World Record for the longest drafting of a train.

Harvey Price, 21, who has autism, lives astatine the National Star College, adjacent Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and started drafting the 21.3 metre-long representation of a Thameslink bid past month.

Mr Price besides has Prader-Willi syndrome, septo-optic dysplasia and a learning disability.

Katie Price said: "I can't judge he's got his ain Guinness World Record."

"He's worked truthful hard connected completing his drafting and I deliberation he's done amazingly well."

"We officially person a Guinness World Record holder successful the household and everyone is truthful blessed for him," she added.

He had to gully a representation longer than 20 metres.

He was presented with a certificate aft adjudicators from Guinness World Records travelled to the assemblage and unrolled the drafting successful the courtyard to measurement it.

The grounds was achieved nether the Guinness World Records impairments initiative, which has been developed alongside Mencap and allows tenable adjustments to beryllium made for grounds bids to amended see radical with learning disabilities.

Mr Price, who is simply a keen creator and bid enthusiast, is 1 of respective 'Mencap story busters' who privation to situation misconceptions astir learning disabilities.

Louise Adams, Mr Price's creation tutor, said: "It was a precise carnal situation but Harvey demonstrated what a focused young antheral helium is with an impeccable cognition of trains.

"We are precise arrogant of Harvey for what helium has achieved passim this challenge."

Alison Pike from Mencap said: "Harvey is continuing to bust myths and preconceptions astir what it means to unrecorded beingness with a learning disability, and we are delighted that his passionateness for trains has led to him being a satellite grounds breaker.

Will Munford, a Guinness World Records adjudicator, said: "This grounds successful peculiar that Harvey has achieved showcases creator talent, the patience and absorption required to acceptable a Guinness World Records rubric and it is an honour to adjudicate it."