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Well, I was optimistic!

It sort of made sense!

And after all, it was only supposed to be shut to replace a lift!

Nutteronabus wrote:it was only supposed to be shut to replace a lift!

What they didn't mention was that they were replacing it with an opera house.

I'm going to use the Empire State Building comparison again.

Even due to Health and Safety, they've got NO excuse for that kind of procrastination.

1930: Excavation of the site where the Empire State Building would stand begins on January 22nd.

1930: On March 17, construction of the Empire State Building began. Under the direction of architects Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, and a peak labor force of 3,000 men, framework rose at a rate of 4 ½ stories per week.

1930: The masonry work for the building, which began in June of the same year, is completed on November 13.

1931: On May 1st, President Hoover presses a button in Washington, D.C. officially opening and turning on the Empire State Building's lights.


Read that! The masonry took six months to complete! From nothing to skyscraper in nine months!

I bet ******** could do it quicker.

Can anyone confirm the total number of stations in Zone 1, including both Paddingtons and Edgware Roads? Also is there an alphabetical list of these anywhere, as is my first attempt I dont want to miss any

I think this is it - I'd had them on an Excel spreadsheet when vaguely working out a Z1 challenge a while back. Don't blame me if they're not all there though, as neither am I a lot of the time....

Aldgate
Aldgate East
Baker Street
Bond Street
Covent Garden
Earls Court
Edgware Road
Elephant + Castle
Euston
Farringdon
Great Portland Street
Green Park
Holborn
Kings Cross
Leicester Square
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
Moorgate
Notting Hill Gate
Paddington
Paddington
Regents Park
Sloane Square
Temple
Vauxhall
Victoria
Waterloo
Westminster

OK I dont blame you
But I reckon you must be a few short as I tried to work it out from Zone 1 map and I made it 62, but according to Hakan he visited 64 stations last year

Ok, well it doth appear that I fuckethed up.

Here's a list just created and alphabeticised, using the time-honoured method of physically "rubbing out" each station using Windows Paint. For the two stations that there are two each of, I've just marked the H+C version so it doesn't look all messy, like. 64 in total. God knows how I somehow thought that other list was definitive. I'll be launching an enquiry.

Aldgate
Aldgate East
Angel
Baker Street
Bank
Barbican
Bayswater
Blackfriars
Bond Street
Borough
Cannon Street
Chancery Lane
Charing Cross
Covent Garden
Earls Court
Edgware Road
Edgware Road H+C
Elephant + Castle
Embankment
Euston
Euston Square
Farringdon
Gloucester Road
Goodge Street
Great Portland Street
Green Park
High Street Ken
Holborn
Hyde Park Corner
Kings Cross
Knightsbridge
Lambeth North
Lancaster Gate
Leicester Square
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
Mansion House
Marble Arch
Marylebone
Monument
Moorgate
Notting Hill Gate
Old Street
Oxford Circus
Paddington
Paddington H+C
Piccadilly Circus
Pimlico
Queensway
Regents Park
Russell Square
Sloane Square
South Ken
Southwark
St James's Park
St Pauls
Temple
Tottenham Court Road
Tower Hill
Vauxhall
Victoria
Warren Street
Waterloo
Westminster

Confirmed! The list is indeed complete.

This year ANY station from this list, except Vauxhall and St. James's Park, may be drawn from the hat as starting station! Vauxhall was used in -04 and St. James's Park in -05 and we don't like repeats.

Excellent, no repeats or else I will be following the winning Hakan route of 2005 from St James to Vauxhall

Is it just me, or has Geoff's Zone 1 pages gone off the web permanently? Or have they moved?

I think they were excellent - both entertaining and informative!

Please, Geoff, publish them again!

I was trying to find them today (for some Zone 1 tips )
But I agree they seem to have gone missing somewhere!

I suspect Geoff's fairly busy at the moment, try asking him in a week or two. (Apparently he's moved house/emigrated)

He is indeed on a very long holiday or thoughI wouldn't call him busy!

moley wrote:I wouldn't call him busy!

What about unpacking all his tech kit?