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scrxisi wrote:Karahan luck has run out?

I think it might have been your luck (except that often none of it worked for you) as every TC record I have you were part of the team!

Having had no good route when I arrived, I grabbed some Tube Maps and started scribbling whilst I waited for the others to appear. After several attempts I believed I finally had a route with potential. This went as follows:

NHG- Baywaster- Earl's Court- KX- Bank- Chancery (run) Farringdon- Aldagte (run) Ald. East- Sloane Square- Victoria- Vauxhall (SWT) Waterloo- Bridge- Elephant- Padd (Bak) (run) Padd H&C- Euston Sq. (run) Euston- TCR- Queenway

However, I made a very big mistake...upon the change at Bayswater the next train out was a Circle (1 min), with a Wimbo 2 minutes behind that. Somehow the brain failed to realise I needed ECT so I stayed on the Circle to South Ken and carried on with my route (to KX). I only became aware of my error when I had already finished the challenge and was discussing routes at the meeting point...of Earl's Court!

Apart from this my route was fantastic with several very good connections. The longest being the good old H&C at Padd! As I neared what I thought was the finished station I knew I had a very good time. After I stopped the clock I carried on back to NHG and interchanged to the Circle/District to meet up at ECT.

Since I "finished" I took the interchange casually, just missing a Circle by seconds! 5 minutes wait for the Wimbo that got me into ECT for 2156 and waited for a while for the others to appear. If I realised I missed out ECT earlier on I would of given it my all at the NHG interchange.... oh well, that's hindsight!

But even had you caught that Circle, Tangy, you'd not have made it to Earls Court any more quickly - unless you'd got lucky with an Olympia train.

I was more thinking taking the Circle to Glos. Rd. and swapping over to the westbound District there rather than bailing at HSK and relying on the Kenny O.

My route did have some similarities to Hakan's suggestion.

Notting Hill Gate - Earls Court - Kings Cross - Bank - Queensway - Bayswater - Paddington (Cir) - Paddington (H&C) - Edgware Road (Cir) - Edgware Road (Bak) - Regents Park - Great Portland Street - Aldgate East - Aldgate - Sloane Square - Victoria - Vauxhall - Waterloo - London Bridge - Elephant & Castle - Embankment - Euston

I had a pretty good start until reaching Paddington where I just missed an H&C and had to wait 13 minutes for the next one. After that everything was OK except for a couple of minor delays at the end at E+C and Embankment for a final time of 3:11.

OK here are the finishing positions for The John Stark birthday celebration evening Z1

5th joy54 - did not finish
4th Going Underground & Beer Baron 3hrs 17mins 46secs - Paddington H & C
3rd Greatkingrat 3hrs 11mins 41secs - Euston
2nd Starkey 3hrs 09mins 06secs - Paddington H & C
1st Tangy ESTIMATED 3hrs 08mins - Earls Court

Thanks to the particpants