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New idea for another challenge!

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After staring at a tube map for a certain amount of hours, I have come up with yet another idea for a challenge, and I call it 'The environmentally friendly challenge'!

Basically, you must visit every station (Tube, Overground and DLR included) with something to do with nature, or of the sort. Examples I came up with:

Willesden Green
Honor Oak Park
Greenwich
Carpenders Park
Becontree

Provisional list will be added to this thread later on if anyone is interested :)
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I suspect that would be a very long challenge! The Park Challenge on its own takes a long time before you even start with the Greens and Woods and Gardens etc.
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Agreed Parks is over 8 hours and I see that as with the "Posh" challenge we are spreading our wings out to DLR and Overground for these "new" alternative challenges...

This being the case you could "re-visit" the parks challenge with inclusion of a few more stations....
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I've taken that into account, very true. Well here's the provisional list of all the stations:

TUBE STATIONS

Chorleywood
Moor Park
Northwood Hills
Northwood
Northwick Park
Wembley Park
St. James's Park
Royal Oak
Westbourne Park
Shepherd's Bush Market
Wood Lane
Ravenscourt Park
Turnham Green
Chiswick Park
Kew Gardens
Parsons Green
Southfields
Wimbledon Park
Stepney Green
Upton Park
Becontree
Theydon Bois (anyone who did French at school would know why :wink: )
Newbury Park
Roding Valley
Bethnal Green
Shepherd's Bush
Greenford
Ruislip Gardens
Canons Park
Willesden Green
St. John's Wood
Green Park
North Greenwich
Stonebridge Park
Kensal Green
Queen's Park
Kilburn Park
Regent's Park
Colliers Wood
Chalk Farm
Belsize Park
Golders Green
Burnt Oak
Tufnell Park
Mill Hill East
Woodside Park
Oakwood
Bounds Green
Wood Green
Finsbury Park
Covent Garden
Hyde Park Corner
Northfields
Park Royal

DLR STATIONS

Island Gardens
Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich (ha ha!)
Greenwich
Langdon Park
Beckton Park

LONDON OVERGROUND STATIONS

Woodgrange Park
Wanstead Park
Harringay Green Lanes
Gospel Oak
Honor Oak Park
Forest Hill


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1) Too long
2) Why the sudden obsession with adding in Overground and DLR stations?
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Rhys1995 wrote:After staring at a tube map for a certain amount of hours)
You need to get out more.
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Might as well just do a full network!
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Might as well get him up to 260 stations at least.
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palkanetoijala31 wrote:Might as well get him up to 260 stations at least.
like!

The ONLY reason to this over a full network is because Olympia is omitted. But, then again, this challenge would allow it to be visited by overground. Yes, there are a couple of extremities that are missing (Amersham and Chesham fork), but this is basically a full network with additional overground and DLR track to cover. There's nothing wrong with challenges that cover everything- but this doesn't cover everything, instead, being annoyingly close.
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First route attempt comes in at 11 hours 59 minutes.
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Appreciated a lot.
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I have hunted for a topic raised a couple of years back which was for "The Countryside" challenge which was a similar idea but I believe excluded the "Parks" and DLR/Overground...
Does anyone else remeber/able to find this one??
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