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DLR - Langdon Park opening 10th December
Posted: 20 Nov 2007, 19:35
by Soup Dragon
Langdon Park is due to open on 10th December, therefore you have just 16 days left to attempt the current 38 station configuration before the new station opens and the slate is wiped clean. (parts of DLR are closed 8-9 December for engineering)
The current record is held by Ric Brackenbury with 1h46m55s.
Posted: 23 Nov 2007, 23:36
by Starkey7
Gordon Bennett, that's your worst performance? That's only two minutes away from the record!
Posted: 23 Nov 2007, 23:38
by Soup Dragon
scrxisi wrote:I tried today - 1h47:52, my worst performance yet. I don't think I have the time or strength to do it again anytime soon ("that run" seemed twice as long today...) so I'll leave it to someone else to claim
After my dreary performance I headed on down to TV centre to watch a recording and bumped into some tube challengers. We turn up everywhere we do
Only good enough for 3rd place in the table and 29 seconds off your PB, you really are slipping! So who did you bump into, anyone we know?
Posted: 25 Nov 2007, 21:56
by Soup Dragon
Langdon Park looks very close to being ready now. Passed through there this afternoon on what is probably my last DLR before it opens. Unfortunately due to some poxy event at ExCel (The 3rd annual Global Peace and Unity Event) our train to Beckton was several minutes late which then meant it was impossible to make our scheduled KGV train. We started at Lewisham & finish at Bank in a time of 2:12:46. Now the big shock the team of 4 was as follows.... Antony, Phillip, Emma & ..... Sally Brown (my wife on her first.... and probably last challenge)
Posted: 25 Nov 2007, 23:53
by joy54
I was out on Saturday for an attempt got to KGV and managed to get a bus straight away, unfortunatly this took an age and I just missed my connection at Gallions Reach so I gave up. When I got to Tower Gateway on my way back I then noticed that the Jubilee line was suspended between Stratford and North Greenwich so wouldn't of got any records anyway!!
Posted: 26 Nov 2007, 18:58
by editorsfoot
Soup Dragon wrote:Now the big shock the team of 4 was as follows.... Antony, Phillip, Emma & ..... Sally Brown (my wife on her first.... and probably last challenge)
Just how many more Browns are there to come out of the closet??
Posted: 26 Nov 2007, 19:20
by ping pon
editorsfoot wrote:Soup Dragon wrote:Now the big shock the team of 4 was as follows.... Antony, Phillip, Emma & ..... Sally Brown (my wife on her first.... and probably last challenge)
Just how many more Browns are there to come out of the closet??
well Alice Brown who is 72 has mentioned to me a couple of times she fancies doing a DLR challenge
Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 08:25
by Going Underground
editorsfoot wrote:Soup Dragon wrote:Now the big shock the team of 4 was as follows.... Antony, Phillip, Emma & ..... Sally Brown (my wife on her first.... and probably last challenge)
Just how many more Browns are there to come out of the closet??
I have mentioned the possibility of Mrs Going Underground doing a tube challenge but I don't think there is much chance of this ever happening...
Posted: 27 Nov 2007, 18:49
by jamesthegill
Well, girlfriendTheGill might be coming along to the zone 1 challenge next year...
Posted: 05 Dec 2007, 19:01
by jamesthegill
According to a blog post on the
London Connections blog, it's opening at 5am on Saturday.