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Steeevooo · Post by **Steeevooo** » 20 Jan 2006, 18:32

I know that "doing stations" using National Rail is permitted if the trains use the same tracks as LU trains, but is this still applicable if they use different platforms? I ask, as it is known that you can use the Silverlink down to Richmond, but the Silverlink uses different platforms at Richmond, and therefore, if you are being extremely picky, uses different rails at that point., would this technically invalidate any record attempt?

zeibura · Post by **zeibura** » 20 Jan 2006, 19:38

nope, thats perfectly okay. you're still going along the same tracks, they just branch out cos richmond is the terminus, which is just normal. same applies for the bakerloo/silverlink at H&W.

Post by **tubeguru** » 23 Jan 2006, 22:52

Just to expand on the Richmond thing, Silverlink use platforms 4 and 5 whereas District trains use platforms 5 to 7.

But as the trains run over the same rails from just north of Gunnersbury all the way to the junction outside Richmond Station, I don't think Guinness are going to be too picky.

Obviously, getting a train into platforms 1 or 2 on the SWT mainline is not going to count as "visiting" Richmond unless you arrive or depart by tube/Silverlink.

greatkingrat · Post by **greatkingrat** » 24 Jan 2006, 21:53

Actually District line trains do occasionally use platform 4 at Richmond so the only problem could occur if you arrive in platform 3 which definitely can't be used by LU trains (due to the lack of a 4th rail).

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 30 Jan 2006, 08:11

On the other hand, both arriving at and departing from Richmond without using the District Line seems a bit remote to me...

But I, too, love an interesting discussion about rule interpretations!

zeibura · Post by **zeibura** » 30 Jan 2006, 21:56

you could do it if you came in from gunnersbury having run from chiswick park, and left getting an SWT train to somewhere, or vice versa

Post by **tubeguru** » 31 Jan 2006, 11:04

Geoff and myself did that very thing once.

Didn't use a D stock train at all I believe.

hwolge · Post by **hwolge** » 31 Jan 2006, 11:18

Well, interesting.

I guess you must have made the Willesden Junction connection then. (Vauxhall/Waterloo seem to take too long to make it worthwhile). And I haven't found any other remotely attractvie options (but maybe I should keep looking...).

Also I guess you made the Turnham Green Pic-Dis thing too...

Anyway, most interesting info!

jonny · Post by **jonny** » 31 Jan 2006, 17:34

there is also the possibility of running from Gunnersbury to Chiswick Park (i think), to avoid missing that station

zeibura · Post by **zeibura** » 01 Feb 2006, 13:46

richmond to vauxhall takes about 15 minutes if youre lucky, and there's also the feltham - heathrow connection (which is only practical from richmond).

and obviously if you start at heathrow, as geoff & neil did a few times, you probably would stop at turnham green on a picc line train

Post by **tubeguru** » 01 Feb 2006, 14:55

I never started at Heathrow - that was pre-Neil.

What I meant by the Richmond thing was we arrived at Gunnersbury from Chiswick Park, caught the Silverlink to Richmond and then left Richmond by alternative means ...

We didn't use a D-Stock train at all on the Richmond branch.

G Force · Post by **G Force** » 02 Feb 2006, 21:25

tubeguru wrote: and then left Richmond by alternative means ...

Did you have the helicopter on standby again?

Post by **tubeguru** » 03 Feb 2006, 09:43

Rumbled again.

Does this mean our world record is null and void?

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