I'm surprised nobody's done this yet. Surely it just takes someone who has
done a FNC soon before the closing of T4
visited Nine Elms and BPS stations since opening
a slightly self-deprecating sense of humour
to claim the inaugural record for the new configuration of "18 months, 12 days..." or whatever.
As far as I know (and correct me if I'm wrong) there is no limit to how long you can take to complete the challenge. I used to think it was a 24hr thing or the same calendar day but that doesn't seem to be a requirement. The start and end times would also be known (to within a minute at least) for those who travelled on the first service from BPS which I know some folks here did. Oyster history could help too.
So does anyone claim it?
2nd place All-Lines: 36:38
1 FNC attempt: 252 stations
Would do it as part of Tube Olympics or for Charity - but never ever again for a GWR - the evidence now required just beggars belief and iq quite frankly ridiculous
Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 4 times Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
If the challenge does carryover to a second day you can suspend the challenge but the clock still runs if I remember.
But does the rule about public transport still apply during the suspension, I.e. Could you take a taxi which normally wouldn't be allowed
Former record holder; Repton 3 Oceans high score 36916 Sheffield Supertram: 3:17:29 London Underground (243 stations): 18:06:49 Vienna U Bahn (FNC): 5:04:47
al wrote: ↑03 May 2022, 18:24
If you resume where you left off then why not?
It makes sense that this would never be an advantage. Maybe getting a lift home for supplies & a toilet break if you live near a tube station before restarting? But perhaps that's still ok.
That means all it would take is for someone to revisit their latest finishing station and make a beeline for Battersea!
2nd place All-Lines: 36:38
1 FNC attempt: 252 stations
Ha! So I've heard. I don't expect anyone to have a continuous video of the last 2 years (they'd need something like 20 terabytes) so I guess it would just be for a forum record
2nd place All-Lines: 36:38
1 FNC attempt: 252 stations
I know that there are some stations that I haven't been back to since I started my labyrinth quest on Sunday 7 February 2016, so from then until 23 October 2021 is 2086 days!
Full Network: Three completions, Best time: 17:18:18 - thanks Glen, Andrew and Rhys! Former DLR 45 station record holder (with Glen, Andi and Stevo) - 2h:08m:57s
All lines: 46:11 (6th equal) Zone One 2:52:51 (thanks Glen)
After Adham's misadventure with the folks at Guinness, don't quite understand vs. instead of v . 16 hrs. With Battersea is not possible.
So Guinness must go back to add/removal resets.
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Golf wrote: ↑03 Feb 2023, 12:56
16 hrs. With Battersea is not possible.
in your opinion its NOT!
It's all bollox anyway, there should NOT be a maximum time - it's a complete reset and the times would then naturally come down organically anyway - Or someone could hit a corker of a time on first GWR attempt......
Twice former full network GWR holder and former Zone 1 Olympic and World Record holder with The Raven and Soupie Tube personality of the year 2009 4 times Winter Olympic Biathlon Gold Medalist with The Beer Baron 2008 All Lines Olympic Gold
This week I was staying at Hatfields which luckily is nearby the London Underground and so 622 days after I had started, I finally visited the eight stations in Zones 7-9.
I did carry on a bit to see if I could have made it in 2022 if I had started at Chesham and hadn't made two mistakes, namely not getting the c2c at Upminster and failing to do the Hammersmith branch early
And surprisingly the answer was possibly. I might have reached between 268 and 271 - I was doing this on a Monday so no chance in hell of getting Kensington (Olympia). If I sacrificed Mill Hill East, I could have used the extra time to do the Richmond branch
Starting from Chesham made me realise how long it took to do the first bit up to Preston Road. I was regularly waiting for over five minutes for my next train, had to take a Chiltern train from Amersham to go further down the line, but of course I had to get off at Rickmansworth to go one stop on a Met train to Moor Park.
Then at Watford a train pulled out just before I arrived - a circumstance that would reoccur later in the day at Uxbridge, which was a pain and I also had to wait at Aldgate for five minutes because my train was held in the platform
Also unlike in 2022, I had to use the Overground between Harrow & Wealdstone and Queens Park, well I didn't HAVE to as a Bakerloo line train was 2 minutes away but I was obeying the rule of getting the first train. It was on this Overground train, I got my ticket inspected. In all my travels on the Underground that has never happened - and you could argue hasn't quite yet technically
It was a great day, but the heat was stifling - it did make me wonder how the hell I did a full day on the previous occasion
Former record holder; Repton 3 Oceans high score 36916 Sheffield Supertram: 3:17:29 London Underground (243 stations): 18:06:49 Vienna U Bahn (FNC): 5:04:47
vs. 
instead of 
. 16 hrs. With Battersea is not possible.