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BERC Update.... 13th November selected for round 2
BERC Update..... Starting station is MARBLE ARCH at 13:00
BERC Update..... by popular demand we will meet afterwards at The Rising Sun

Greetings all, round two will take place in November.
You have up to FOUR votes to pick the most popluar date.

6th November is FA Cup first round, I know this doesn't effect you but could for a lot of others on this forum!!!

Sam wrote:6th November is FA Cup first round, I know this doesn't effect you but could for a lot of others on this forum!!!

Indeed, my fingers away from the voting button so far

You might want to bear in mind that CiN day is on Friday 19th November (so we may be doing a FNC on that date). I'm not certain that I will do the FNC on CiN day, but definitely will not do an FNC and an R15 on consecutive days. So perhaps 20th November isn't a good option.

JoeGJ1984 wrote:You might want to bear in mind that CiN day is on Friday 19th November (so we may be doing a FNC on that date). I'm not certain that I will do the FNC on CiN day, but definitely will not do an FNC and an R15 on consecutive days. So perhaps 20th November isn't a good option.

Although people that are travelling to London could do CiN and stay overnight, The R15 dosen't kick off until around 1300hrs generally... CiN could be the warm up event

I can speak from some experience here, and say that doing a FNC followed the next day by a R15 is not a good idea. One, you're knackered and two, travelling for an extra few hours on a tube train loses its appeal very rapidly!

However, it is good luck for us (us being, you, Matthew and I )

Southern Rail have stupid engineering works on Saturday 13th November, so I will have to take a replacement bus to Hove.

Ah, can't make it, just realised that's the day i'm off to Huish Park to watch Yeovil beat play Dagenham

So, on the 13th. There is no Victoria Line at all from Tottenham Hale and pretty much nothing is running from Liverpool Street (bar all Central Line trains from the west terminating there on that weekend.)

Not much chance of me attending at the moment then, I'll see though...

Adam.

Decision time....

Do I attend this R15 and darts or go for a rail charter train that does the brand new yet to be open to passengers Bathgate-Airdrie line....

[quote="waterloo and city"] .... pretty much nothing is running from Liverpool Street (bar all Central Line trains from the west terminating there on that weekend.) ....

Sounds as though that could be fun, on the Central line on a Saturday! OK - there are two sidings at Liverpool Street, but the reversals will have to be pretty slick if it's not all going to grind to a halt. Stepping-back of drivers, I expect, with a driver on each end for the reversals.

Train have been terminating at Liverpool Street this weekend as well...

Thought I might as well list the closures as it's available. (I'm presuming there are no twists this round).

Stations completely closed (i.e. the line through the station is closed):

Bethnal Green
Great Portland Street
Euston Square
Farringdon
Barbican
Aldgate
Willesden Green
Kilburn
West Hampstead
Swiss Cottage
St. John's Wood
Southwark
Bermondsey
Canada Water
Canary Wharf
North Greenwich
Highbury & Islington
Pimlico
Vauxhall
Brixton

Stations closed but pass-through possible:

Blackfriars
Cannon Street
Warren Street

A couple of extra notes: sometimes during engineering works, the Metropolitan Line trains stop at Willesden Green (and Neasden) although it is normally only served by Jubilee line trains. I remember using the journey planner before when that part of the Jubilee Line was closed, but the Metropolitan Line through the station was open. And it showed that the Metropolitan Line trains would stop at Willesden Green (and you could get a direct train from Willesden Green to Aldgate!) I tried the Journey Planner to see if the same thing happened this time but it does not seem to indicate that Metropolitan Line trains will be stopping at Willesden Green station. So I added it to the closed stations list.

And Latimer Road is closed westbound. The BERC ruled last round that a pass-through in either direction would be OK to count it, so I think we should stick with this for consistency. There is also the possibility of Latimer Road being drawn as the starting station. The BERC's ruling didn't include this possibility because we had already decided that we would start at Whitechapel. I would say that in this case, you would have to depart Latimer Road on a train heading eastbound.

I guess it is about time we decide the start time and starting station for this?

Slight change to the list posted by Joe, the Central line closure appears to have been cancelled, so Bethnal Green is now open, plus Met line trains are now showing in the Journey Planner as stopping at Willesden Green.