You could possibly get at those side barriers at H&W on Platform 1 though, or the platform readers on the Platform 2/3 island. The real killer is the West Ruislip - Ickenham OSI or the Walthamstow/Leytonstone one. Although there's platform readers at Walthamstow Central, so I suppose a double tap... yeah, none of this would work.geofftech wrote:So as part of my 'Walk the tube' charity event taking place this Friday (10th April) some of us (out of the 26 of us doing it!) are now going to try using Oyster PAYG for the whole day, to see what pitfalls are .. of which i am sure there we'll be some. We'll report back here.
It's another level of ludicrousness - same as Guinness not recognising that now infamous valid weekend attempt, same as them not recognising Wood Lane as a big enough to change to warrant a reset (remember those 16:39 and 16:42 times I told you about done off of an evening Olympia? we changed between Wood Lane and White City on both of those attempts - impossible before Wood Lane opening), and yes someone at GWR goes "Oh, I know we'll get them to use Oyster because that has a handy journey history" without realising that it times out. They've never done the challenge, so they don't completely understand how their rules affect us.
I too am seeing the 'old' set of rules, with no mention of Oyster. Hopeless.
If Oyster can be used, why not Contactless? Yet again, Guinness say 'Do this...' without thinking it through or having a full understanding of it. Again, hopeless.
But (thanks tufnellpark) of course, it is just PART of the evidence that they now require, along with everything else. The fact that you have managed this is extremely impressive...
Moorgate? Nope .. i'm running right past the barriers getting to the Northern Line, or to the sub-surface as quick as I can. No time to stop at the barriers.tufnellpark wrote:To avoid OSI just touch out/in at nearby interchange stations. It only takes 10 secs. Kenton/Northwick Park OSI was mentioned. Simply touch out/in at Preston Road or Harrow & Wealdstone, where you are changing trains, obviously checking you have enough time before your train departs. At Epping the gates are right on the platform, so touch out/in is easy. But if you are rushing to catch a train from the other platform, just touch out/in at Woodford instead. To avoid exceeding maximum journey times, plan to touch out/in where you can ie where you are passing the gates at interchanges. So Moorgate is a good possibility, Brixton is not. We touched out/in 34 times during the day and the longest section between touches was 01:45. You do get some funny looks from gate staff though!
Preston Road? Nope .. on 16:20.27 day, we cross-platformed immediately onto a train in the opposite direction, no time to mess around with Oyster.
Harrow & Wealdstone? Nope .. you usually get two minutes and we were a minute late in, so we dashed over and 30 seconds later our train left. No time there.
Woodford? Nope .. we came round the loop, straight onto an Epping train and obviously didn't stop at Woodford on the way back south. That's no good.
I am struggling to think of places (apart from when you really do leave one station and enter another) that you would have time to go touch in/out. At Brixton you're underground, Covent Garden, Leicester Square and Kennington reverses you're deep underground, Stanmore is always a fast turnaround, Sloane Square you just reverse as fast as you can, so umm, really struggling ...
*thinks*
OK Maybe Upminster and you were going back into town on C2C and the side entrance was still open right by Platform 1.
Mill Hill East you'd probably have time if you're just waiting for the train to reverse.
I can't think of any others where you wouldn't normally exit the station.
This is totally ridiculous.
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Hugh, you should have told him though that "Every journey matters".The Orange One wrote:Upon explanation of what I had done, he told me, and I quote "London Underground is a serious system" and that it was "joyriders like you who drive the fares up".
Geoff, I couldn't possibly make a joke. London Underground is a serious system.
Oyster FNC Route (off the Labyrinth one):
Chesham North Harrow Rayners Lane Ealing Common Ealing Broadway North Acton West Ruislip Ickenham Northwick Park Kenton Baker Street Aldgate East Aldgate Monument South Wimbledon Wimbledon Clapham Junction Shepherd's Bush Shepherd's Bush Snaresbrook Walthamstow Central Euston Edgware Canons Park Wembley Park King's Cross St Pancras High Barnet Cockfosters King's Cross St Pancras Hammersmith H&C Hammersmith D&P Gunnersbury Chiswick Park Acton Town Heathrow Terminal 5.
I don't know how long that would take, but there's a lot that's been shaved off. Perhaps another full network route would allow even more timesaving. Also, Upminster? Hainault loop? Watford? Amersham? Not to mention pretty much all of the Circle, the Richmond branch, Mill Hill East and the all important Olympia train.
Looking at your Tube 1, you seem to have:
Chesham North Harrow West Harrow Northwick Park Kenton Baker Street King's Cross St Pancras Edgware Stanmore Wembley Park King's Cross St Pancras Oakwood High Barnet Euston Walthamstow Central Liverpool Street Whitechapel New Cross New Cross Gate Whitechapel Aldgate East Aldgate Victoria Vauxhall Clapham Junction Kensington Olympia West Kensington Earl's Court Notting Hill Gate West Ruislip Ickenham Acton Town Heathrow Terminals 123 Paddington Shepherd's Bush Market Shepherd's Bush Oxford Circus Stockwell Morden.