I was contemplating if it would be feasible to sometime next year (I think April, May or September will be the best months) to organise an open trip for members on this forum (i.e. any member on the forum can come along if they want to) to Berlin (arranging travel from London and accommodation) to challenge the U-Bahn over there (competing with each other either in teams or individually to get the best time on the FNC and perhaps other challenges). You can see a map at http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/bln/berlin.htm.
There are previous posts on this forum about the Berlin network at http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/index. ... =viewtopic, http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/viewto ... f=9&t=1645 and http://www.tubeforum.co.uk/forum/index. ... =viewtopic. (It has been mentioned in these threads that just the U-Bahn, not the S-Bahn is used for challenging, although the S-Bahn can be used as other public transport. The map I linked to above includes both U-Bahn and S-Bahn).
We have an unofficial record for the FNC of the U-Bahn of 07:34:50. And I was thinking for this trip, we should see do some other challenges such as an R15 (maybe think of one or two more). So I say we should make a holiday out of it and go for a week (also look around the city generally). And Berlin also has trams to play with.
In one of the other threads, Soup Dragon seems keen to have a European challenge among forum members, so I was hoping (to Soup Dragon) I could twist your arm
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Anyway, would anybody be interested in this (please post if you are, no definite commitments yet, but just to get an idea of how much interest there might be). Incidentally I wonder if anyone knows if this sort of thing (i.e. organising holidays abroad) has been done on internet forums elsewhere? (Does anyone know of anything like this?). And if this is successful, it could perhaps turn into an annual event. There are a number of European cities with metro and/or tram systems so we could go to different cities.