tubechallenge.com

Has anyone ever tried it?
(Rules etc)
How long would it take roughly?

Does it specifically exclude visiting stations on the circle line?

I'm Guessing that you don't have to visit the stations on or inside the circle, making around 223 depending on when it's attempted.
And are the Germans still coming over?

Yes, but my point was, are they actually forbidden? i.e. are you allowed to visit circle line stations in order to make things easier or are you specifically supposed to *not* visit any of them?

I suppose the answer should be "no Circle line stations at all" BUT you have to do the stations INSIDE the Circle line (Oxford Circus etc).

Which only allows us a number of "entry and exit points" into the middle of the Circle line:

Northern or Victoria lines southbound from Euston to Warren Street.

W&C or DLR into Bank is allowed if you maintain that Monument is a separate station.

National Rail to Charing Cross or Marylebone.

If you're not allowing any station that has a platform used by Circle line trains then Angel and Old Street will be interesting. You'd have to run/bus to one of them, go to the other one by train and then run/bus somewhere else again!

Paddington H&C station is contentious - it is shown as separate but is part of Paddington complex. Would you need to (or be allowed to) do it?

Lots of doubling back needed at the last station before the Circle line stations on some lines so this makes for a very interesting challenge, but can it be done in one day?

As the Circle Line challenge requires you to do all stations on and within the line, the opposite of this should therefore mean that you are forbidden to go along or inside the line at all.

Unless this makes for a new spin-off - doing all stations apart from the ones actually on the Circle Line. Interesting...

Here's one then: The anti-Piccadilly Line challenge! Does what it says on the tin.

I was basing it on this:

<I>As has 'The anti-Circle line challenge' .. you have to do all the stations, but not including the ones inside the Circle Line. A more extreme version of this is that you have to do all the stations not including the ones inside the Circle Line - without even going inside the Circle Line!
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So its more of an outer london challenge i think. Id guess you can visit circle line stations to better position yourself but you dont't have to

An anti-Piccadilly challenge? Would this mean you didn't have to (or weren't allowed to) visit stations e.g. KXSP, Holborn, Leicester Square as well as intermediate stations such as Russell Square, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge?
If you didn't have to do stations Rayners Lane to Uxbridge on the Met then how would West Ruislip be done?

How about the anti-East London line challenge, where you were not allowed to use Canada Water or Whitechapel?

The anti-Northern line challenge, not allowed to use stations such as Warren Street, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, etc.

There could be some other interesting ones, I'm sure.

This has really gone on a tangent...

jonny wrote:An anti-Piccadilly challenge? Would this mean you didn't have to (or weren't allowed to) visit stations e.g. KXSP, Holborn, Leicester Square as well as intermediate stations such as Russell Square, Hyde Park Corner and Knightsbridge?
If you didn't have to do stations Rayners Lane to Uxbridge on the Met then how would West Ruislip be done?

That's only the half of it:

http://www.whatthefuck.tv/anti_pic.JPG

You try arriving at or departing from West Kensington, without stopping at any Piccadilly Line stations!

No.
Hell No.
More time than sense

Earl's Court closed due to a fire alert?

Only Lines it Feasible With Are...
Metropolitan
ELL
W&C
& Maybe District
Otherwise the map gets cut in 2