"Sir Benjamin Nunn" wrote in message ...
"geoff tech" wrote in message
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Somone else I know wrote to them, and they came back saying that they were
only interested in London and New York. So once we've done Paris (just
for
the hell of it .. ), then it'll be time to head across the pond and do the
NYS! double running tracks .. .24 hour operation .. what more could you
want? :-)


I'd like to see how they'd decide the criteria for completion in NYC, as
it's much harder to define what constitutes an individual station.

There are several stations with the same name that are completely seperate
from one another, and other stations with different names that are
accessible from one another without coming to the surface, very different
from the composite interchange stations that we're used to.

And then you have the fast running lines that don't pass a platform surface
when they go through the station - would travelling on a fast train through
these stations count? And then there are the stations where the up and down
platforms are effectively seperate stations, with no subterrain connection
between the two.

If you're extrapolating from London rules, going fast through a
station definitely doesn't count -- you'll need to take a 6 train up
the East Side, not a 4/5. And stations where up and down are
segregated are generally pretty obviously one station.

The real trouble comes where you have stations with a whole load of
internal connections and some of the platforms have different names
from the others; the only example in the UK is Bank/Monument, and my
memory of the Guinness rules is that you don't need to visit the
Monument platforms in addition to the Bank platforms. As such, it
doesn't matter whether the platforms you visit are called 42nd St/Port
Authority, Times Square or 42nd St/Times Square -- they're all the
same station and connected inside the barriers.

Hmm. What about Aqueduct Racetrack? Does that count?

(And yes, I'm listed on Geoff's website too )