Hopeful Traveller's All Lines Challenges

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Re: Hopeful Traveller's All Lines Challenges

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Went out and did yet another one. This is how it went, without Embankment open...

Started at Farringdon and waited for a 'perfect two'. Got to Moorgate and down the Northern Line, but with a terrible three minute wait. There wasn't going to be another perfect two for a while, so I ploughed on. In the middle of rush hour I legged it down to the Waterloo & City Line, but AGAIN got the Waterloo doors wrong, meaning I took a detour onto the JLE via the NR concourse. Sexy change nonetheless, and up to Westminster. District and Circle Lines to Victoria, down a super-crowded escalator and only just made the train. Green Park change was fine, but I'm sure there's a slight uphill in that change! Eastbound Piccadilly, and then some important info for you all.

I got to Piccadilly Circus and ran up the usual way to find that the spiral stairs to the Bakerloo had been closed! They were using them for building works. Made a train (just) - but would I have made an earlier one? I'll never know.

Then at Oxford Circus, I just needed to get on ANY Central Line to finish. Except, for the first time in my life, I couldn't get in trains owing to overcrowding!

Got off at TCR and recorded a woeful 49:24.
1 FNC Completion (PB: 17:18:18 with G Bryant, A Chilcraft, I MacNaughton)
4 Zone Ones (PB: 03:00:35 with G Bryant)
15 R15s (PB: 01:55:48 with T Cooling and R Jackson)
11 All Lines (PB: 00:44:03)
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Re: Hopeful Traveller's All Lines Challenges

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I knew!! I found out when travelling to uni, but it slipped my mind.
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