Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Soup Dragon wrote:Date: 27FEB Time: 12:30
Starting station: Canada Water

Event 5 of the winter games will double up as round 4 of the 2009/10 R15 Championship. There are 18 closed stations and 3 closed where pass through is allowed:

Closed Stations:
North Acton
East Acton
White City
Shephards Bush (Central line)
Holland Park
Queensway
Lancaster Gate
Marble Arch
Highbury & Islington
Pimlico
Vauxhall
Brixton
Stepney Green
Bow Road
Bromley-by-Bow
Aldgate
Willesden Green
Kilburn

Closed but pass through allowed
Archway
Blackfriars
Warren Street

The meeting point after the event will be at the Tube Challenge home of darts, The Horse & Groom, Great Portland Street.

Entrants:
Soup Dragon
GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
Sam
scrxisi
mps247
Looking at the 'Live travel news' section of the TfL website, there seem to be more closures: All of the northern half of the Circle Line (and the Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City Lines) from Baker Street to Liverpool Street (plus Aldgate, but you've got that already, but not stations which are on other lines) and all the stations from Aldgate East to Bromley-by-Bow inclusive, except Mile End because it is on the Central Line as well (in fact, of these you only need to add Aldgate East and Whitechapel, as the ones east of Whitechapel you have already). And Clapham South is closed but you can pass through it.

In summary, the stations that need to be added to the closed list are:

Great Portland Street
Euston Square
Farringdon
Barbican
Aldgate East
Whitechapel

And Clapham South needs to be added to the other list of stations closed but allowing pass through.

Incidentally, I'm hoping to come along to this - but I'll be coming down to London and back on the same day by train and there are engineering works, so I need to wait to see the revised timetable before I know if I can get to the start on time, so hold off on adding me to the list for the moment.
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Looks like I won't be able to make it. The first train of the day gets into Marylebone at 12.15. I'm never going to get from there to Canada Water by 12.30 :( . Hopefully I'll see you at the next round.
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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I might be coming to this with my girlfriend, but I'm not sure yet as it depends on her train times, etc.

But, out of interest, how much planning time is there for the 15 stations? Is it just a case of the stations come out of the hat and then you start straight away, or is there some allocated time? Just wondering!
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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The clock starts when you open the envelope. So you have the choice of either jumping on the first train and planning the route as you go along, or taking a few minutes to decide what you want to do.
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OK, Thanks for letting me know! It sounds like a really great challenge!
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Crikey, Central London's a disaster area for the tube this Saturday :shock:

No Met, Vic or Circle (or indeed, the Drain!)
No Central west of Marble Arch
No H&C east of Edgware Road
No District east of Tower Hill
No Jubilee north of West Hampstead

This is going to be a dodge the work and the crowds sort of challenge, I think. Still, I'll be there :)

Entrants:
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GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
mps247
Al
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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The morons! Why don't TfL and NR talk to each other, Walthamstow is effectively cut off from the trains this weekend with both the Victoria and NXEA CHI-LST route not running!

Oh well, there is always the good old GOBLIN....Hang on, with Archway closed that mucks up the Upper Holloway- Archway interchange. I give up....
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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JoeGJ1984 wrote:Looks like I won't be able to make it. The first train of the day gets into Marylebone at 12.15. I'm never going to get from there to Canada Water by 12.30 :( . Hopefully I'll see you at the next round.
In order to give everyone a chance of getting to Canada Water on time I'm moving the start to 13:00. I suggest that we meet inside the station main entrance. Please can all entrants text me on Saturday morning to confirm if they're attending (I will PM my mobile to anyone that hasn't already got it).
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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This is going to be fun.... :lol:

Closed Stations:
North Acton
East Acton
White City
Shephards Bush (Central line)
Holland Park
Queensway
Lancaster Gate
Marble Arch my mistake this is open!
Highbury & Islington
Pimlico
Vauxhall
Brixton
Stepney Green
Bow Road
Bromley-by-Bow
Aldgate
Willesden Green
Kilburn
Great Portland Street
Euston Square
Farringdon
Barbican
Aldgate East
Whitechapel

Closed but pass through allowed
Archway
Blackfriars
Warren Street
Clapham South

The meeting point after the event will be at the Tube Challenge home of darts, The Horse & Groom, Great Portland Street.

Entrants:
Soup Dragon
GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
mps247
Al
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Hi. I'm coming along (can somebody add me to the participation list if necessary?)

I've just got a couple of questions:

I read when you did the Mouse challenge about synchronising your watches. Will this be necessary for the R15? (I'll probably be using the stopwatch feature on my mobile phone, which means the time shown is irrelevant).

I presume the clock starts when the envelopes are opened - does the clock stop when the doors open at the last station? Or when I set foot on the platform? (I've seen both of these mentioned before). What if I visit the last station by arriving from outside the tube and departing from it by tube? What if the last station I visit is a 'pass through' station (i.e. closed but have to pass through it?).

You also talked about an alternative pub if you couldn't get access to the dartboard at the Horse and Groom - what will this likely be?
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Off the top of your head, do you think I will be OK doing the R15 with an Oyster card? (Because I have read about timeouts if you take too long). Or should I stick with the old-fashioned paper ticket?
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Do NOT use Oyster for, well any challenge (unless it's a free one). They time out very easily, for example, a passenger travelling to Imperial Wharf from Stratford changing at Willesden Junction often end up getting timed out(!) so I dread to think how it would cope with a challenge....
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Entrants:
Soup Dragon
GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
mps247
Al
JoeGJ1984
greatkingrat

Whitechapel needs to be added to the list of closed stations. Maybe it would be quicker to just list the ones that are open :D
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Entrants:
Soup Dragon
GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
mps247
Al
JoeGJ1984
greatkingrat
Starkey

The stations have been drawn by Grandma Jones and are now in sealed envelopes ready for Saturday.
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Re: Tube Olympics 2010 - Event 5 - R15 (Round 4) - 27FEB

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Soup Dragon wrote:Entrants:
Soup Dragon
GU
Tangy
Mitchell&BrownLook
edgemaster
mps247
Al
JoeGJ1984
greatkingrat
Starkey
sarawearn
palkanetoijala31

The stations have been drawn by the Grandma Jones and are now in sealed envelopes ready for Saturday.
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