Mornington Crescent - GAME 1

[hwolge]

It was South Acton

Mea Culpa

Bank

[tubeguru]

Rotherhithe

[PFW]

Stepney Green

(This is my last play - Samantha has offered to pull me off at half time)

[hwolge]

I call for a vote (in accordance with the Johannesburg extended rules of -89) of whether PFW should be declared stationary in Stepney Green or be removed!

I vote for removal!

[tubeguru]

Lucky you.

Hammersmith (H&C)

[hwolge]

Hammersmith (H&C)

With pre-1972 rules - Hammersmith is considered ONE station and H&C is an unknown concept (if any, it should be Met.). Anyway I'll accept it, but interpret it as a generic Hammersmith move.

What about PFW?

I can't make a move without knowing what will happen there...

[tubeguru]

Damn, what a schoolboy error to make!

Looks like I've lost all my tokens then ...

[tubeguru]

Although I will take issue with you on contending that Hammersmith was considered one station pre-1972.

What is now the H&C station would have been the Met station so there would still have been two stations to take into consideration, surely. I don't believe the two were linked although I have heard rumours of an old underground passage between them.

Maybe I don't lose *all* of my tokens now

[hwolge]

Fair enough. My boyhood memories (from the diagram on my wall) tells me they were shown as interconnected on the map. Actually I stayed in Hammersmith for a week back in -75 but I can't remember using the Met connection - probably because they weren't connected...

I guess this is the proper time to finish off the game:

Mornington Crescent

[tubeguru]

Maybe we need an MC section ...

[PFW]

Although I will take issue with you on contending that Hammersmith was considered one station pre-1972.

What is now the H&C station would have been the Met station so there would still have been two stations to take into consideration, surely. I don't believe the two were linked although I have heard rumours of an old underground passage between them.

Maybe I don't lose *all* of my tokens now

The status of Hammersmith has varied, apparently on a whim. Stringmore obviously has never been there and has indicated it a three stations. Beck seemed to view it as one station (with the line connector to three interchange circles on his diagrams) whilst Hutchinson viewed it as two - Met Line ending with a Terminus Bar rather than as an interchange! More recent maps are equally varied.

GWR have also been equally vague. The current rules state that it is two stations both of which must be visited, but in the (recent) past have said that it is only one and can be visited in whilst traveling on the Picc or District Lines!

I'm off now to try to find myself a life.

[CrunchySaviour]

According to the Trans-Pacific Cup rules of 1972, and a famous incident in the Yorksbury game of the same year, it was deemed impossible to play Hammersmith when the Ongar Reversal was in knip and Holborn in Contempt. Please bear this in mind when playing the Harris-Barris Manoeuvre.

[tubeguru]

You could have reminded us about that during the game

I've made a note of it now though.

[juggler]

You b****ds - I was about to execute a cunning triple "Parkington Smyth" reversal taking in Euston, Great Portland St and Caledonian Road

[zeibura]

that wouldn't have worked - the use of caledonian road played in any such neo-flydian reversal nearby any stations on the west coast mainline was ruled out in the 1961 revised rules, because of the confusion about which one actually goes to scotland and which doesn't.

thats my input for the decade.