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Plus, surely they ran the Aldgates and also ran Gunnersbury to Chiswick Park...

Not that it explains the weird 270/270 on the Culture shows spreadsheet, but in the same cell as it says T4 it has 268 after it, which makes more sense

Also I'm sure they would have ran from North Harrow to Rayners Lane rather than going via West Harrow (which they would have visited later anyway).

Interesting, but clearly a bit of artistic licence in not showing clearly some of the obvious runs - it just looks prettier for the blob to go along tube lines.

I'm also disappointed that this route is now so easily available for those who don't want to do the hard work of researching and planning their own. I was surprised though that there was nothing new in potential options that I hadn't thought about. It also confirms that my basic route idea (the ordering of which is flexible dependent on what happens on the day) is more efficient than this route, if measured in terms of redundant passes through stations. That explains why my best time (16:43) beat it when there were fewer trains (being a Saturday) and at least three significant service failures causing me chunky delays. (Though I acknowledge that the record holders have said in the past that their record days were also not without some service problems.) It also explains why Andi and Steve appear to have been relaxed about releasing this route, but not their current record route.

Yes, doubling back all of Goodge, West Ken, White City, and East Acton surprised me.

tractakid wrote:Yes, doubling back all of Goodge, West Ken, White City, and East Acton surprised me.

Goodge Street been doubled backed for many years, hence the Goodge Street Shuffle!

The Raven wrote:Goodge Street been doubled backed for many years, hence the Goodge Street Shuffle!

Never done it.

My recent routes have managed to get away with not doing it - it's not unavoidable

Interesting to see the East Acton double bacl and then White City double back, I'd not thought of that

Iain wrote: Interesting to see the East Acton double bacl and then White City double back, I'd not thought of that

This was derived from Hakan's computer driven route. His routeing actually travelled from Ealing Broadway to White City to double back to West Ruislip.

I tweaked this to the East Action double back on my record runs with Andy and Matt, which then formed the basis for the route you see above.

My routes always do Hammersmith to Acton Town twice so I guess it avoids that at the expense of three stations worth of double back - interesting.

Iain wrote:My routes always do Hammersmith to Acton Town twice so I guess it avoids that at the expense of three stations worth of double back - interesting.

I count 4... East Acton, White City, Barons Court, West Ken?

To be fair it's a good little animation with a few mistakes. It gives a tubechallenger "noob" the basics of a route but doesn't give away all the "secrets". I do hope the labyrinths do inspire future Tubechallenges.

BC and WK in the animation yes, I was countin N Acton too

Well there are 5 people who know the route 2 who know it inside out

Martin vague collection of day

Sara wearn good luck on finding her

Ian green good luck on finding him

Andi and Steveo know the route obviously why not ask one of us

Nigel wrote:I'm also disappointed that this route is now so easily available for those who don't want to do the hard work of researching and planning their own.

Both Andi and Steve had the option to not reveal this route to the artist, but they chose to do so. If anyone feels aggrieved that "secret" information has been made available too readily, then the fault lies squarely with Andi and Steve.