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tintin wrote: ↑23 Sep 2021, 20:55

EastActionWoman wrote: ↑22 Sep 2021, 09:06 I haven't spent a lot of time trying to update my Z1 route. Current plan is to just tack on the Northern line extension to the end of it. Would normally finish at Vauxhall, so from there head to Battersea Power Station and get Northern line to Kennington and finish there instead. I popped down there yesterday evening, and even with wearing the air boot, it only took 10 minutes to interchange from Vauxhall to BPS.

Once the timetable increases to 10 or 12 trains an hour next year, then I think the doubleback would be quicker instead.

I attempted the South of the River challenge on Tuesday, using the bus to get from BPSS to Vauxhall. I was very lucky in two respects: There was a [check front of train]-bound train waiting at Kennington when I arrived on the adjacent platform, and there was a bus already at the stop at BPSS when I arrived there. If I'd had to wait a long time for a bus, doubling back might have been quicker. But there are ~20 buses an hour serving that stop, so the NLE would have to massively increase service frequency for the bus not to be the best bet.

DavidC wrote: ↑30 Oct 2021, 10:37 2:18:03 yesterday for me for the South London (tube) challenge with the simplistic addition of a NLE return to get a time on the reset board.

That's a bit disappointing bearing in mind my 2016 time was 1:51:07 http://www.tubechallenge.com/forum/view ... p?p=100195 . "Only" 20 minutes of the difference was taken up on the new branch, with the other seven coming from various minor annoying aspects adding up. Lots of other aspects worked just as well as previously, which was reassuring.

I'll certainly research more about the Vauxhall/BPS(S) area before having another go - at first glance, I think I'll need to keep reminding myself to include Oval while planning the new route. Whether I manage to have another go before the Bank branch closure remains to be seen.