Can anyone explain why a lot of the official times in the 1960's are considerably faster that the current 275
The times are around 15 and 16 hours and some of those are for 277...
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Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 Twice Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
I seem to remember that at one stage there were three records...one all-Underground, one Underground + Bus and the other private transport. They were "A", "B" and "C" records, but in the end only an "A" and "B" survived. Obviously using taxis and cars between terminals saved time. However by the time that we at LURS were involved at the request of Guinness in supervising what was to become a new record (Heathrow 123 having opened) in the early Eighties, it was just the "A" record with public transport. To assist the intrepid team the District Controller was asked to hold the last Upminster at Monument...! Those were of course the days of Ongar starts at 6.00 or so, finish at Upminster, on a day when the Olympia service was running and Shoreditch was open plus Aldwych. So a weekday, one of the few Exhibition days per year. I think the Watford Bakerloo service had finished but am not sure...it may have been to Queens Park that occasion.
Yes I remember the 1980 attempys as I was out there on behalf of LURS when I caught them at Hammersmith to Turnham Green then they went down to Richmond and back to TG thence to Heathrow from memory. I think Desmond Croome was invoived with "Roving" as we called it when I was on the Publications Committee. So far as I can recall the Rovers were not part of LURS but by 1980 had been subsumed into LURS and tghen a Roving Committee was formed that oversaw all attempts and then sent the details to the McWhirters.