Mornington Crescent - GAME 3

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Mornington Crescent - GAME 3

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Righto, I'll commence in the leafy West London suburb of:

HOLLAND PARK.
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The famous McMoore's Opening!

That leaves me with a few options, but to prevent tubeguru from picking up too many blue tokens too early on, I will move to

Moor Park
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what? thats blindingly illegal, the krap room reversal cannot follow the first move because its mu is theta, and would imply launching a recurring spoon loop on all previously played stations.

so actually: farringdon!
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Sorry, my mistake, Moor Park is patently illegal as the opening player cannot be placed in knip when playing a Zone 2 station.

STAMFORD BROOK. (Barrington Farringdon eliminatory sidestep)
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So, you saw me eyeing those blue tokens did you?

Maybe I should change my openings more often. Anyway, tokens aside, Morton's 3rd Parallel (1954 Eastbourne Regional Over-75's Tournament) should swing us nicely into:

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By doing a quick reverse-tube-challenge type manoeuvre, I'll hot-foot it over to:

HARROW AND WEALDSTONE
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Bloody hell! I leave you blokes alone for a few hours (oh, alright, two days) and you finish off game 2 without me! That deserves a triple-tangential-conjugation to

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Right, with no further ado, I move to:

EPPING
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Wow - one huge Central radial sweep and on an odd-numbered weekday too.

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BECONTREE (well, why not?)
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From where we'll take the District Excursion service out to:

SOUTHEND CENTRAL

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Oooh, Excursion Rules!

Yay.

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Well as we're in Wales, it has to be done:

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Utlising the "Most Obvious Station To Play" manoeuver there I see.

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