Some advice wanted

[chris1975]

See what you've started now?

Me started lol get's people going hehe

[greatkingrat]

I did have a good route for High Barnet-Cockfosters about 3 years ago which was inside the then world record. It managed to knock off MHE, Chesham and Hainault early on with good connections for all of them. Unfortunately the connections don't seem to work any more.

[chris1975]

Just to let everyone know that we have eventually got a route sorted need's tweaking as going to take nearly 18hours and Heathrow 4 closed when we get there

Having a rest then gonna try a few tweaks

[chris1975]

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/loca ... _1_2769466
http://www.pudseychallenge.co.uk
Apparently tomorrow is Guiness World Record Day!

The way I read that article was that they are out there today doing the challenge, not tomorrow? Which would obviously mean that today is Guinness World Record Day! (Why oh why do we even need a "Guinness World Record Day"?)

They, being the Pudsey Challenge team were indeed out today as I met up with them
However, things did not go according to plan but I shall let them explain all so as to not steal their thunder

Hi Guys,

Just an update of what actually went on that day and the newspaper article.
When first came up with the idea of doing the tube challenge for CiN, I joined this forum. I also contact GWR for rules (which in the mean time I got from Sam) GWR also gave me a reference to challenge for the record. Which we had no chance of ever getting or any interest in getting. However they kept contacting me without even asking any information but kept asking if we where still doing the challenge as November 18th is Guinness World Records Day. We told them we had a no chance of beating the record but they told us it was good publicity for them as it was World Records Day. So they decided to help us out so that they could get the publicity.

Our fastest time on paper was 17:27 on the day as Sam said things didn't go according to plan at all. The Chesham train was just over a minute late, I then fell at Chalfont & Latimer bruised all my left side (still in pain now) we had already missed out Amersham connection. But we kept on going plodding on Amersham train arrives now 16 minutes down. We get to North Harrow and head to Rayners Lane only to find that the direction we had sent us the wrong way. We still managed to get there in 11 minutes but had now missed 2 connection so early on. But we still kept going. Around 12.00pm due to line delays and our problems we notice we where now over an hour behind schedule and decided that was it no more logging, but we did continue to do some of the station to see if we could obtain any helpful information should we ever do it again.

As Sam said we did meat up with her at Willesden Junction for a quick chat and to thank her for her support.

So as you can see we had a problems right from the start. We believe we still managed around 220 stations in the 17 hours we where out there.

[Going Underground]

Hi Chris and team, well done for battling on after such a nasty start to the day and I hope the experience hasn't put you off too much and you will be back for another crack

[chris1975]

Hi Chris and team, well done for battling on after such a nasty start to the day and I hope the experience hasn't put you off too much and you will be back for another crack

Oh yes we will be back hopefully during the decent weather some time mid spring - early summer

[nozzacook]

I was out that day getting last minute research. the network was not kind with several signal failures you did well to get that far.