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.
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"Mrs Redboots"
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/
Website updated 26 September 2004

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
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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

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

"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 )

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:03:57 GMT, "geoff tech"
wrote:

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? :-)


You didn't quite crack the London-Epson record on Thursday night,
though, from what I heard

Rupert

Rupert Goodwins wrote in message . ..
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 08:03:57 GMT, "geoff tech"
wrote:

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? :-)


You didn't quite crack the London-Epson record on Thursday night,
though, from what I heard

Rupert

It would be quite an achievement to get from London to Epson,
Kentucky, in any night.