Broomster's Tube Challenge - 1st Attempt :-)
Posted: 09 Nov 2013, 23:19
On 5th November myself and a couple of colleagues attempted the Tube Challenge for the first time - and unfortunately for us, fell 1 station short of a completion.... We'd even managed to get in the Kensington Olympia service as it was an "event day" when we did it... Where we fell foul was Heathrow T4 - which by the time we hit the branch after midnight had closed.... (the only other one we didn't do was Edgware Road on the Bakerloo which is a long term closure anyway... though we did pass through at 5mph so if it was open it would have been done..)
We started at 05:22:37 at Amersham and finished at 01:01:12 at Heathrow T5.. A thouroughly enjoyable experience which will be repeated next year at some point
For our route - please visit http://broomster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/blog-post.html
We made a complete balls up of the plans pretty early in the day - heading up to Harrow and Wealdstone on the Bakerloo from Baker Street - when the original plan was to do Stanmore on the Jubilee - by the time we realised we'd screwed up we were halfway up the Bakerloo.. I'm pretty sure that rewriting our plan cost us at least an hour in time... I'm not listening to my colleage Chris next time lol.
I'm pretty sure that we can get a completion next time - it's just a case of planning it for an event day.....
I've raised almost £1k for Singleton Hospital's Neonatal Unit - something I'm very proud of
http://www.justgiving.com/broomster
We started at 05:22:37 at Amersham and finished at 01:01:12 at Heathrow T5.. A thouroughly enjoyable experience which will be repeated next year at some point
For our route - please visit http://broomster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/blog-post.html
We made a complete balls up of the plans pretty early in the day - heading up to Harrow and Wealdstone on the Bakerloo from Baker Street - when the original plan was to do Stanmore on the Jubilee - by the time we realised we'd screwed up we were halfway up the Bakerloo.. I'm pretty sure that rewriting our plan cost us at least an hour in time... I'm not listening to my colleage Chris next time lol.
I'm pretty sure that we can get a completion next time - it's just a case of planning it for an event day.....
I've raised almost £1k for Singleton Hospital's Neonatal Unit - something I'm very proud of
http://www.justgiving.com/broomster