A new Top Times list for the current 272 station configuration (Battersea Power Station extension) Full Network Challenge.
If you have a time to add to this list, you can PM me or use the contacts via Explorer Ticket and I will add it onto this thread. Only completions will be considered for the purposes of this Top Times.
Entries marked "GWR" have been recognised and verified by Guinness World Records.
1. 17:24:44 David Edgington, Gabriel Ferris, Milo Lennon (25/07/25) [UNOFFICIAL FASTEST TIME - NOT SUBMITTED TO GWR]
2. 17:46:07 Alan White (29/03/2025) [Time not submitted to GWR]
3. 17:46:48 Robin Otter and Thomas Sheat (10/08/2024) [CURRENT CONFIRMED GWR]
4. 17:51:55 Derry Lin (14/11/2023)
5. 18:08:13 Arthur Philipps, Ruairí O'Grady, John Mawdsley, Alex Rennie, Tim Livant, Joseph Solomon, Alex Sinclair, Yipeng Xu (23/10/2023) [Former GWR]
6. 18:13:28 Shaun Fareman (23/09/2025)
7. 18:23:19 Laurence Gill and Adam Hughes (28/04/2023)
8. 18:23:48 Andrew Chilcraft (22/09/2022)
9. 18:23:53 Alan White (06/09/2023)
10. 18:30:32 Richard Standing (16/06/2023)
11. 18:31:37 Martin Hazel (26/07/2024)
12. 18:41:42 Jake McDuff and Leonard House (08/08/25)
13. 18:47:52 Alan White (14/08/24)
14. 18:55:14 Alan White (19/04/2023)
15. 18:59:32 Derry Lin (16/06/2023)
16. 19:22:42 Alan White (22/03/2023)
17. 19:27:47 Jonathan Maddox (05/09/2023)
18. 19:49:15 Andras Bard and Sabrina Jewson (08/07/2023)
19. 19:54:26 Nick468 (01/09/2022)
20. 20:04:10 Adham Fisher (04/10/2021) [Former GWR]
List updated: 06/10/2025 (A new unofficial time, beating the previous best by around 22 minutes!)
List updated: 07/10/2025 (A new time of 18:13:28 by Shaun Fareman, moving into 6th place in the list)
List updated: 07/10/2025 (A new time of 18:41:42 by Jake McDuff and Leonard House, moving into 12th place in the list)
Top Times: Full Network Challenge (272-station configuration)
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Top Times: Full Network Challenge (272-station configuration)
Last edited by tangy on 30 Jul 2024, 18:15, edited 4 times in total.
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This is a Central line train to "Woodford via Hainault"- sadly, not no more!
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This is a Central line train to "Woodford via Hainault"- sadly, not no more!
Tangy.
This is a Central line train to "Woodford via Hainault"- sadly, not no more!
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Re: Top Times: Full Network Challenge (272-station configuration)
News has reached me that a new world record (and potential GWR, they have sent all the evidence to Guinness including 18 hours of Go Pro footage) has been achieved by John Mawdsley in a time of 18:08:23 on the 23rd October 2023.
I have verified their evidence and am happy to award them the new unofficial record time.
I have verified their evidence and am happy to award them the new unofficial record time.
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Re: Top Times: Full Network Challenge (272-station configuration)
List edited, with the newly-confirmed GWR added, shaving a gargantuan five minutes and seven seconds off the previous best.
Mind you, when I held the record twenty years ago, it was beaten by just five seconds when we finally lost it
Mind you, when I held the record twenty years ago, it was beaten by just five seconds when we finally lost it

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List edited to include Alan White's new fastest time, which will not be subimtted to GWR. Thus, the current record stands as the fastest official time.
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List edited to add the latest fastest unofficial time, not submitted to GWR, by David Edgington, Gabriel Ferris, and Milo Lennon on the 25th of July.
And by almost 22 minutes too.
And by almost 22 minutes too.
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Another update - a new sixth-fastest time on the list of 18:13:28 for Shaun Fareman (sftfan1909).
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Re: Top Times: Full Network Challenge (272-station configuration)
They're all coming out of the woodwork now. Another new time of 18:41:42, by Jake McDuff and Leonard House has been added.
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