Even more alternative challenge ideas
Posted: 24 Feb 2014, 10:06
The Alternative Alphabet Challenge
LU stations only. Start at a station with a letter A in its name, visit a station with a letter B in its name, then C... and so on through to Z. You must use 26 distinct stations for the letters.
You're going to end up at Belsize Park, but where are you going to start? Could be done as a Cannon Street challenge.
All Modes Challenge
Surely someone has suggested this before. Travel between two stations/stops by all the following modes:
All 11 Underground lines, Overground, DLR, National Rail, Bus, Tram, out-of-system on-foot transfer. The on-foot transfer cannot be the first or last leg of your journey. Optional (because of extra cost): also include a river trip and the Emirates Air Line.
The Thames Crossing Challenge
LU, LO, DLR. Travel on a service along each of the 15 Thames crossings as depicted on the standard Tube map. Usual GWR rules apply for journeys between the crossings. Same rails rules apply between Gunnersbury and Kew Gardens, so you may use either LU or LO there. The fact that several separate tunnels may exist in reality is ignored; you only need to make a single crossing for each line shown on the map. Emirates Air Line is ignored (or is an optional extra).
The Punctuation Challenge
Visit all 18 LU stations whose name includes a character that is not a letter, number or space:
Bromley-by-Bow, Chalfont & Latimer, Earl's Court, Elephant & Castle, Harrow & Wealdstone, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3, Highbury & Islington, Kensington (Olympia), King's Cross St. Pancras, Queen's Park, Regent's Park, Shepherd's Bush, Shepherd's Bush Market, St. James's Park, St. John's Wood, St. Paul's, Totteridge & Whetstone.
Some obvious outliers for start and end points, then KenO and a nice smattering of zone 1 and 2 stations with plenty of route options.
(Technically, the & sign isn't punctuation, but whatever.)
LU stations only. Start at a station with a letter A in its name, visit a station with a letter B in its name, then C... and so on through to Z. You must use 26 distinct stations for the letters.
You're going to end up at Belsize Park, but where are you going to start? Could be done as a Cannon Street challenge.
All Modes Challenge
Surely someone has suggested this before. Travel between two stations/stops by all the following modes:
All 11 Underground lines, Overground, DLR, National Rail, Bus, Tram, out-of-system on-foot transfer. The on-foot transfer cannot be the first or last leg of your journey. Optional (because of extra cost): also include a river trip and the Emirates Air Line.
The Thames Crossing Challenge
LU, LO, DLR. Travel on a service along each of the 15 Thames crossings as depicted on the standard Tube map. Usual GWR rules apply for journeys between the crossings. Same rails rules apply between Gunnersbury and Kew Gardens, so you may use either LU or LO there. The fact that several separate tunnels may exist in reality is ignored; you only need to make a single crossing for each line shown on the map. Emirates Air Line is ignored (or is an optional extra).
The Punctuation Challenge
Visit all 18 LU stations whose name includes a character that is not a letter, number or space:
Bromley-by-Bow, Chalfont & Latimer, Earl's Court, Elephant & Castle, Harrow & Wealdstone, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3, Highbury & Islington, Kensington (Olympia), King's Cross St. Pancras, Queen's Park, Regent's Park, Shepherd's Bush, Shepherd's Bush Market, St. James's Park, St. John's Wood, St. Paul's, Totteridge & Whetstone.
Some obvious outliers for start and end points, then KenO and a nice smattering of zone 1 and 2 stations with plenty of route options.
(Technically, the & sign isn't punctuation, but whatever.)