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Are we having a Cannon Street run this year folks?

Talk Like a Pirate day is September 19th (two days before the R15) which is when the challenge is traditionally attempted.

Also what type of challenge should this years one be?

NR terminal challenge. Visit all National rail stations in the quickest time possible. This would include:

Blackfrairs
Cannon Street
Charing Cross
City Thameslink
Euston
Fenchurch Street
King's Cross
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
Marylebone
Moorgate
Old Street
Paddington
St Pancras International
Vauxhall
Victoria
Waterloo
Waterloo East

I'd just make it a Z1 NR challenge. Stuff like Elephant & Castle and Shoreditch High St too?

Vauxhall isn't a terminal... Except for ticketing purposes so is it based on tickets or where trains actually terminate?

Sam wrote:Vauxhall isn't a terminal... Except for ticketing purposes so is it based on tickets or where trains actually terminate?

Well, the concept of London Terminals includes Vauxhall, but making it all of Z1 solves this problem anyway!

Define visit. If you're including Waterloo AND Waterloo East, you need to define visit. Having to catch a NR train could make this difficult (e.g. boarding at Paddington means you have to go as far as Acton Main Line/Ealing Broadway, Marylebone as far as Harrow-on-the-Hill).

Otherwise this might be a good list of underground stations:
Blackfriars
Cannon Street
Charing Cross
Elephant and Castle
Euston
Farringdon
King's Cross St Pancras
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
Marylebone
Moorgate
Old Street
Paddington (both!)
Shoreditch High Street
Victoria
Vauxhall
Waterloo

You may also wish to include a visit to Tower Hill (for Fenchurch Street), Southwark or a second visit to Waterloo for Waterloo East, Shoreditch High Street by LO and for City Thameslink either use the Thameslink, do a second visit to Blackfriars or St. Paul's (which is the second closest).

This is just a suggestion before you dive in.

scrxisi wrote:(as an aside, I am sure someone told me it would be an Alphabet challenge this year, with no set order of letters)

Is the correct answer

Going Underground wrote:

scrxisi wrote:(as an aside, I am sure someone told me it would be an Alphabet challenge this year, with no set order of letters)

Is the correct answer

I strongly disapprove of this idea.

I agree with tractakid. We could do "C to Z" then "A to B"?

The Raven wrote:I agree with tractakid. We could do "C to Z" then "A to B"?

Surely if there is no set order, you could do Q, A, Z, E, P, T etc etc

Sam wrote:

The Raven wrote:I agree with tractakid. We could do "C to Z" then "A to B"?

Surely if there is no set order, you could do Q, A, Z, E, P, T etc etc

Sorry i mean C to z in order, then A to B in order

The Raven wrote:

Sam wrote:

The Raven wrote:I agree with tractakid. We could do "C to Z" then "A to B"?

Surely if there is no set order, you could do Q, A, Z, E, P, T etc etc

Sorry i mean C to z in order, then A to B in order

Sorry, ignore me, I got confused, you were suggesting how you wanted it, got ya.

The Raven wrote:

Sam wrote:

The Raven wrote:I agree with tractakid. We could do "C to Z" then "A to B"?

Surely if there is no set order, you could do Q, A, Z, E, P, T etc etc

Sorry i mean C to z in order, then A to B in order

Glen there simply wont be time to them in order C to B we wont be able to start until around 6.30pm and it will be very difficult to complete, meet up and get home?

I just don't think the proposed challenge is very interesting, I can imagine everyone pretty much taking the same route, as the I for Ickenham effectively dictates the finishing position, with perhaps one or two routes that are sensible up until that point. The challenge looks very short and not very change-heavy and I can't see myself spending money to do this.

tractakid wrote:I just don't think the proposed challenge is very interesting, I can imagine everyone pretty much taking the same route, as the I for Ickenham effectively dictates the finishing position, with perhaps one or two routes that are sensible up until that point. The challenge looks very short and not very change-heavy and I can't see myself spending money to do this.

Max time for any Cannon Street Run needs to be under 4 hours anyway really as it is an evening event.....