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I wouldn't say it is within the letter of the law, you haven't visited Chesham until the train departs, and then you have to get your foot onto the platform.

It does leave the somewhat odd situation that you can depart Chesham but not get your foot onto the platform (when the clock is stopped) until 9 minutes after the departure.

I doubt it's cropped up in a full network but it probably has in an r15 or similar

It's happened at least 3 times on challenges I have attended. My DLR challenge finished at Shadwell over 10 minutes after arriving at my last station (Tower Gateway). A2 finished the last R15 at Edgware Road after last station was Paddington H+C. The Raven finished the Posh challenge at South Ruislip after arriving at Ruislip Gardens by bus, I believe. I have also considered it in other situations, indeed I intended to do it at the last R15 o my failed plan.

I ran from Ruislip to Ruislip Gardens I think in the cold and dark!

Another R15 that I departed the final station was my first one. Where me, Myles, Al, Andi and Matt N? ran to North Acton and got the train to East Acton. With the clock stopping at East Acton.

I think it was Starkey who famously finished a Zone 1 challenge at West Kensington.

Iain wrote:I wouldn't say it is within the letter of the law, you haven't visited Chesham until the train departs, and then you have to get your foot onto the platform.

Right, but the rules don't explicitly state that you have to get your foot onto the platform after formally "visiting" the station. They just say that the clock stops "the moment the challengers set foot on the platform at the last station". Obviously they were written under the assumption that challengers would be arriving at the last station by train. If (as Tubeguru says) this is a formal requirement, shouldn't it be written into the rules?

GuyBarry wrote:

Iain wrote:I wouldn't say it is within the letter of the law, you haven't visited Chesham until the train departs, and then you have to get your foot onto the platform.

Right, but the rules don't explicitly state that you have to get your foot onto the platform after formally "visiting" the station. They just say that the clock stops "the moment the challengers set foot on the platform at the last station". Obviously they were written under the assumption that challengers would be arriving at the last station by train. If (as Tubeguru says) this is a formal requirement, shouldn't it be written into the rules?

You know Guinness's address ...

One has to arrive or depart each station by tube train. The rules are absolute in this matter.

hopeful traveller wrote:One has to arrive or depart each station by tube train. The rules are absolute in this matter.

So why has everyone been arguing about them then?

tractakid wrote:A2 finished the last R15 at Edgware Road after last station was Paddington H+C

That wasn't in the plan, I got lost

GuyBarry wrote:

Iain wrote:I wouldn't say it is within the letter of the law, you haven't visited Chesham until the train departs, and then you have to get your foot onto the platform.

Right, but the rules don't explicitly state that you have to get your foot onto the platform after formally "visiting" the station. They just say that the clock stops "the moment the challengers set foot on the platform at the last station". Obviously they were written under the assumption that challengers would be arriving at the last station by train. If (as Tubeguru says) this is a formal requirement, shouldn't it be written into the rules?

True, it's not explicit, but I think it's implicit. It's reasonable to assume you'd have to have visited (which in this case means departed) the station before stopping the clock, so that dictates that it must be the foot onto the platform at the next station. The alternative is to stop the watch before you're finished which makes no sense.

Having said that I'm concocting scenarios involving pulling the passenger alarm when the front half of the train has departed the station and running back down the train to leap onto the platform

...or you could amputate your foot before departing the last station

Iain wrote:...or you could amputate your foot before departing the last station

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Iain wrote:...or you could amputate your foot before departing the last station

If you could do that, you could only break the record twice....

...unless of course you got a prosthetic foot