Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

In message , at 14:19:12
on Sun, 4 Sep 2016, remarked:

From time to time there have been "all day rover tickets" but
perhaps only from 9/10am onwards.

and not as early as 1970 either.

Here's a Twin Rover ticket from 1967:

http://www.yellins.co.uk/transporthi.../redrover.html
--
Roland Perry

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

wrote:
In article , (John Levine)
wrote:

Are fast, non-stop services allowed? For example, from Wembley Park to
Finchley Road on the Met, or Acton Town to Hammersmith on the Picc? Or do
stations only count if the train stopped at them?

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

The rules reproduced there make clear that the answer to Recliner's question
is no.

Yes, I'd assumed that would be regarded as cheating.

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
14:19:12 on Sun, 4 Sep 2016, remarked:

From time to time there have been "all day rover tickets" but
perhaps only from 9/10am onwards.

and not as early as 1970 either.

Here's a Twin Rover ticket from 1967:

http://www.yellins.co.uk/transporthi.../redrover.html

My recollection is that they weren't valid in the morning peak.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

John Levine wrote:
Are fast, non-stop services allowed? For example, from Wembley Park to
Finchley Road on the Met, or Acton Town to Hammersmith on the Picc? Or do
stations only count if the train stopped at them?

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

Is there a generally accepted optimal route for attempting the challenge
within these rules? Presumably there are certain parts of the network that
impose constraints so have to be done at particular times.

Robin

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

Is there a generally accepted optimal route for attempting the challenge
within these rules? Presumably there are certain parts of the network that
impose constraints so have to be done at particular times.

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/projectplan

R's,
John

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

In article , (John Levine)
wrote:

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

Is there a generally accepted optimal route for attempting the challenge
within these rules? Presumably there are certain parts of the network
that impose constraints so have to be done at particular times.

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/projectplan

All far too sophisticated for 1970! No WTT for a start and not even a pocket
calculator to carry around. We did have some contingencies set up to cover
extra bits, mainly in Zone 1, if we got ahead of our timetable. We were 40
minutes up until the bloody 107 bus let us down so badly.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:13:14 -0500,
wrote:

In article , (John Levine)
wrote:

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

Is there a generally accepted optimal route for attempting the challenge
within these rules? Presumably there are certain parts of the network
that impose constraints so have to be done at particular times.

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/projectplan

All far too sophisticated for 1970! No WTT for a start and not even a pocket
calculator to carry around. We did have some contingencies set up to cover
extra bits, mainly in Zone 1, if we got ahead of our timetable. We were 40
minutes up until the bloody 107 bus let us down so badly.

Ah. I could have warned you about that! I used to live on the 107, and
in 1970 it would have been one of London's longest central buses
routes. Delays were the norm.

Mind you, it was handy for a trip to Aldenham Works.

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

In article ,
(BirchangerKen) wrote:

On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 20:13:14 -0500, wrote:

In article , (John Levine)
wrote:

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/tube-challenge-rules

Is there a generally accepted optimal route for attempting the
challenge within these rules? Presumably there are certain parts of
the network that impose constraints so have to be done at particular
times.

Read all about it:

http://www.thetubechallenge.com/projectplan

All far too sophisticated for 1970! No WTT for a start and not even a
pocket calculator to carry around. We did have some contingencies set up
to cover extra bits, mainly in Zone 1, if we got ahead of our timetable.
We were 40 minutes up until the bloody 107 bus let us down so badly.

Ah. I could have warned you about that! I used to live on the 107, and
in 1970 it would have been one of London's longest central buses
routes. Delays were the norm.

Mind you, it was handy for a trip to Aldenham Works.

Annoyingly it was running on time apart from one bus in a 20-minute interval
service being cancelled. It was also slow getting to High Barnet so we just
missed the train we needed. We had to get the right one to get to Mill Hill
East (where the photo was taken) and back.

None of that would have mattered had we visited South Harrow, the only way
in those days to find out the exact evening timetable there, beforehand.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Can you visit every underground station on one fare?
 

On 05/09/2016 11:34, wrote:
Here's a Twin Rover ticket from 1967:

http://www.yellins.co.uk/transporthi.../redrover.html

My recollection is that they weren't valid in the morning peak.

I don't recall.

But they weren't valid north of Rickmansworth on the Met.

(Since we always boarded at Watford Junction or Croxley, depending on
which grandparents I was with at the time, I can't remember whether it
was valid at Ricky itself.)