Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, oh my!

[Root]

I just happened to catch the last few minutes of "The Tube" on Sky Three this morning, and it just happened to feature one Geoff Marshall, finishing a 275 attempt at Morden and missing out on the record by ten minutes or so.

As the scene fades out, a voice says something like "with records for Moscow, Paris and Tokyo still up for grabs, Geoff may yet get his name in the record books".

A few points:

Geoff obviously did get a record, along with our very own Neil Blake, but did he get into the books?
There are no Guinness World Records for those three locations, so why were they mentioned?
Does Geoff know something we don't?
Or has Geoff done something we don't know about?
And has anyone finished at Morden since then? In fact, has anyone tried to finish anywhere except Amersham, Heathrow or Upminster since then?

That is all

[Going Underground]

Poetic licence by the programme producers I imagine.......does gloss it up a bit......

As discssued last night can you now realistically finish anywhere other than T5

[palkanetoijala31]

Im definately a new subscriber to the Heathrow T5 finish and it paid off.

[jbom1]

According to both

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_Challenge

and

http://www.rapidtransitchallenge.com/rules.htm

GWR do recognise the New York record.

[jbom1]

I've seen it written that Geoff's Morden finish was inspired by Keith Lowe's book "Tunnel Vision"

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tunnel-Vision-K ... 0099416689

Obviously it disconnects Wimbledon and Morden and passes up the opportunity to use one of the farther flung extremities as the terminus (Amersham, Chesham, Upminster, Heathrow, perhaps Epping?).

[Soup Dragon]

Well the TOSA has received applications from Moscow, Paris & Tokyo to host Tube Olympics 2012. The host city will be selected at the end of the 2008 games, London are hot favourites!