"Sam Holloway" wrote in message
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Shame you see it that way. It's quite an achievement, maybe not on the
global scale of things, but it's certainly good exercise!

Congratulations to Geoff: I know he's been after this for a while. His
website (http://www.geofftech.co.uk/) details all his previous
attempts. I think if someone's achieved their ambition, you shouldn't
knock it.


Wow! I'm on his website!

http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tubechallenge/others.htm

BTN

In message , Sir Benjamin Nunn
writes

Wow! I'm on his website!

http://www.geofftech.co.uk/tubechallenge/others.htm

That's because you're a knight to remember.....
--
Kat

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:28:08 +0100, "Henry"
wrote:
"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

If they do try Paris, is it a greater or lesser challenge than London?

Lesser, I would have thought. If they're only doing the Paris Metro
and not the RER, the area the network covers is substantially smaller.

Wonder if anybody's ever bothered registering a record attempt on the
Glasgow underground? :-)

Sam

Henry wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 30 Sep 2004:

"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

If they do try Paris, is it a greater or lesser challenge than London?


I imagine that this depends on whether the RER is included or not. Mind
you, the Paris system is growing still.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 26 September 2004

"John Rowland" wrote in message ...
"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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Tony Bryer wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 29 Sep 2004:

"The record for visiting all 275 London Underground
stations has been broken by 43 minutes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

How sad.

Why? It's exercise... like ice-skating, but a lot more physically demanding
and with more varied scenery.

Anyway, respect to the guy - to beat it is something, but to beat it by 43
minutes! Wow.

Just to correct you he did not beat it by 43 minutes he beat my record
by 12 minutes, Evening Standard were given the wrong info so every one
else gave the wrong info as well

Steven Karahan wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote in
message ...
"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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Tony Bryer wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 29 Sep 2004:

"The record for visiting all 275 London Underground
stations has been broken by 43 minutes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

How sad.

Why? It's exercise... like ice-skating, but a lot more physically
demanding and with more varied scenery.

Anyway, respect to the guy - to beat it is something, but to beat
it by 43 minutes! Wow.

Just to correct you he did not beat it by 43 minutes he beat my
record by 12 minutes, Evening Standard were given the wrong info
so every one else gave the wrong info as well

Steven, you told us on 3rd March that you were waiting to hear from
Guinness about your claimed record. Did they confirm it?

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"John Rowland" wrote in message ...
"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
...
Tony Bryer wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 29 Sep 2004:

"The record for visiting all 275 London Underground
stations has been broken by 43 minutes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

How sad.

Why? It's exercise... like ice-skating, but a lot more physically demanding
and with more varied scenery.

Anyway, respect to the guy - to beat it is something, but to beat it by 43
minutes! Wow.

I don't know when the last record was set but perhaps the epping-ongar section
was still open then?

B2003

Hi all,

now why didn't i spot this thread earier? someone only just tipped me off
to it.

Kat - we WERE hoping to make the last District back into town. we actually
had a target of 18 hours 20 minutes, which would have got us to Upminster in
time to get the 23.52 back into town.

Sam - YES! you're on my website ...

Steven - 'nuff said methinks on that one?

and "sad" - LOL! - i've been called much much worse..

anyway, yes .. www.geofftech.co.uk/tubechallenge/ is where it's at. there's
complete history of everyone (that i know) that have attempted it etc.. and
a write up of all 7 attempts that it took me to knock this one on the head.
I kinda feel like i've earned it you know ... :-)

Cheers all,
Geoff.


"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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Henry wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 30 Sep 2004:

"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

If they do try Paris, is it a greater or lesser challenge than London?


I imagine that this depends on whether the RER is included or not. Mind
you, the Paris system is growing still.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 26 September 2004

Oh, and Paris will be done next spring/easter. although Guinness don't
actually recognise this as an official record attempt.

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? :-)


"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message
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Henry wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 30 Sep 2004:

"Tony Bryer" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3700658.stm

If they do try Paris, is it a greater or lesser challenge than London?


I imagine that this depends on whether the RER is included or not. Mind
you, the Paris system is growing still.
--
"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 26 September 2004

"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.

I don't think even I would want to travel on that system all day either!

BTN