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Rhys1995 wrote:Realising you are about to be caught by a police officer for invalid travel (somehow breaking the law), you start running in attempt to lose him, a delightful bit of saxophone music begins to play as you frantically, if comically try to get away. Suddenly everything flashes by your eyes and you're suddenly transported to October, 1947. You land in, of all places a tunnel very near to Gants Hill tube station. You then walk to the (currently being constructed) tube station, and meet my granddad! He sees you, and offers you a bacon sandwich, which you accept.

TC95 wrote:You take a Metropolitan line train to St. Mary's (Whitechapel Road)

Invalid leg, once more. St. Mary's closed in 1947, so you've probably alighted at Aldgate East, in which case you can run to Aldgate. If you've travelled back in time, please specify the year, you get off at St. Mary's, and you're still running to Aldgate. It's a bit further, but you can do it.

Four-dimensional gridlock seems to have ensued...

...however, you can be sure that you are at Aldgate station at some time between 1884 and 1947, and you are therefore able to take a Metropolitan Line train to Harrow-on-the-Hill.

Which you do, and then walk to Harrow and Wealdstone station.

You have successfully narrowed the timeframe down to 1923 to 1947, because you board a LMS service to Stanmore Village station.

And after walking onto the pavement outside...

...you spin round in a circle once and then walk to...

Stanmore Village station where you board a service to Belmont

Oh, and you have narrowed down your time to between 1940 and 1947, as you board a number 18 bus outside the station to Wembley Empire Pool.

Swim five lengths of the pool, then...

Travel forward to 1 May 1966, and watch the Beatles perform.

And after running through the mobbing crowd afterward to the pavement outside...

Take the number 18 bus southbound to...

Baker Street

This journey is extremely likely to judder to a halt at Baker Street in the Sixties, which is not good. I will make our character hibernate for 12x1447 days, which is 12*49 synodic lunar months, à la Counting Thread, which dumps us squarely on the 14th November 2013.

Not far enough. Let's add another 400 days, that will take us to December 19th, 2014.

That overshoots a bit, so let's jump back sixteen days to today.

Baker Street in the present day is not a bad place to end this, I suppose. And a Merry Christmas from everyone who has cameo-ed in this thread.

- WH Smith staff across the UK, for your continued custom
- Detective Inspector Warren Street (crossed over from A Story from the Tube)
- Bernard the Tube Challenger
- Rhys Jackson (Rhys1995)
- Albert the Elephant Shuttle between Epping and Upminster
- Albert's mum
- A doctor at St. Bart's Hospital
- Neil Blake (Tubeguru)
- Gareth Bale
- Adham Fisher
- Cheick the Lorry Driver
- Myself (The Orange One)
- Tom Cooling (TC95)
- The Doctor (2nd, Patrick Troughton)
- Martin Hazel (tangy)
- Rhys Benjamin (hopeful traveller)
- Kevin Brown (Going Underground)
- Nick Gardner (DrainBrain)
- Richard Hammond
- some 10 year old diehard Arsenal fan
- Your evil twin
- Charlie Chaplin's Chauffeur
- Rhys Benjamin's Ten Hulking Bodyguards
- Jeremy Clarkson
- The Stig
- Tom Cooling's Uncle
- James May
- Charles Augustus Magnussen (ex. Sherlock), who was the small man with very little hair in round glasses loaning you a coach at Appledore, which you abandoned in Canterbury
- Various prison guards
- A flower girl
- The Beatles

I am surprised to find we haven't had a Robbie Mansell cameo! And now we probably never will - nevermind, that's quite a list!