Re: Random 15 Championship 2013/14: Round 1
Posted: 23 Sep 2013, 22:20
My route:
Ran down to the Central line to find a rather crowded platform and 11 minutes on the screen, I then thought, okay lets go to Bethnal and out east that way, so I switched platforms only to find the train sitting there was going back west, to White City, so jumped on. Not many of the other passengers that came down the escalator realised this... 2 minutes later the train was off over the rare crossover.
St Pauls ran to Mansion House only to find a train pull away on me, but it was only going to Tower. All the way out to Upton Park and U turn back to West Ham.
Ran to the JLE to find a train pulling away and the next in 5 minutes, not happy! Down to Canning Town, where I had a choice of which DLR station to do first, I chose Blackwall simply because the Lewisham bound train was in platform. Only to be greeted with 8 minutes for the U turn at Blackwall. Things got worse at LCY as the train I was on pulled in just as the other pulled away!
With the DLR now behind me, it was back onto the JLE to Waterloo to get SWT to Clapham Junction. I timed it well for a nice connection onto the SN train from platform 16, only to find it wasn't there, it had been binned! So over to platform 1 for the 1446 (for which the next train screen was still showing the 1400 arrival even though that had been and gone).
Glen joined me at this point and we both changed at West Brompton onto the District Line to ECt then down to the Picc. where we had differing, but similar, ideas. I bailed at HPC to get a bus to Marble Arch then a Central line to Holland Park.
I was initially going to U turn here and head back to NHG then thought hang on, I can get a bus to Ladbroke Grove, which is what I did. The bus arriving within 2 minutes. H&C to Padd. H&C then ran through the station to the other subsurface platforms and ran straight onto a train, only to rejoin the H&C again at Edgware Road.
Across to KX, up to H&I then 5 minutes wait for the NLL to take me to my finish at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.
Ran down to the Central line to find a rather crowded platform and 11 minutes on the screen, I then thought, okay lets go to Bethnal and out east that way, so I switched platforms only to find the train sitting there was going back west, to White City, so jumped on. Not many of the other passengers that came down the escalator realised this... 2 minutes later the train was off over the rare crossover.
St Pauls ran to Mansion House only to find a train pull away on me, but it was only going to Tower. All the way out to Upton Park and U turn back to West Ham.
Ran to the JLE to find a train pulling away and the next in 5 minutes, not happy! Down to Canning Town, where I had a choice of which DLR station to do first, I chose Blackwall simply because the Lewisham bound train was in platform. Only to be greeted with 8 minutes for the U turn at Blackwall. Things got worse at LCY as the train I was on pulled in just as the other pulled away!
With the DLR now behind me, it was back onto the JLE to Waterloo to get SWT to Clapham Junction. I timed it well for a nice connection onto the SN train from platform 16, only to find it wasn't there, it had been binned! So over to platform 1 for the 1446 (for which the next train screen was still showing the 1400 arrival even though that had been and gone).
Glen joined me at this point and we both changed at West Brompton onto the District Line to ECt then down to the Picc. where we had differing, but similar, ideas. I bailed at HPC to get a bus to Marble Arch then a Central line to Holland Park.
I was initially going to U turn here and head back to NHG then thought hang on, I can get a bus to Ladbroke Grove, which is what I did. The bus arriving within 2 minutes. H&C to Padd. H&C then ran through the station to the other subsurface platforms and ran straight onto a train, only to rejoin the H&C again at Edgware Road.
Across to KX, up to H&I then 5 minutes wait for the NLL to take me to my finish at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury.