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2h 1m 42s today!

Including a total people jam at the Paddington H&C station that must have cost me at least 2 minutes. (Why on earth is London so crammed with tourists on a wet weekday in March?!) But I can't complain when I had managed to catch my Circle line train with only about 30 seconds' wait. Not being up for the Starkey Run between Warren Street and Russell Square either, I took the Victoria line via Kings Cross, and ended up getting to Russell Square two minutes faster than he did anyway. Take that, John. ;o)

Nowhere near the record though. That's a serious time...

Was it not decided that even with the extension to Hammersmith, the CLBC doesn't count Paddington H&C? Obviously, your route is your route though

Well of course this route is still perfectly valid, but yes, Richie is correct; Paddington (H+C) does not need to be visited on a Bottle attempt.

Good work, Tim, especially around the Euston area!

Yeah, I don't think I had to visit Paddington H&C, but I decided to do it anyway because it was either running a long way there or at Edgware, and I don't know Edgware. The route is basically yours, John, as hours of thought (seriously) failed to bring up a better plan. Except that I reduced the running by going down to Embankment and changing there. That might have been a mistake as it turned out.

In other news, I was charged a £6 penalty fare on leaving my last station (over and above my daily Oyster cap). The same thing happened last time I tried this challenge. It must be because I'm taking too long to get from one station to another or something ... nevertheless, it's both annoying and somewhat expensive, and I dread to think how many full-fare penalties one accrues in a day doing the full network...

timwakeling wrote:Yeah, I don't think I had to visit Paddington H&C, but I decided to do it anyway because it was either running a long way there or at Edgware, and I don't know Edgware. The route is basically yours, John, as hours of thought (seriously) failed to bring up a better plan. Except that I reduced the running by going down to Embankment and changing there. That might have been a mistake as it turned out.

In other news, I was charged a £6 penalty fare on leaving my last station (over and above my daily Oyster cap). The same thing happened last time I tried this challenge. It must be because I'm taking too long to get from one station to another or something ... nevertheless, it's both annoying and somewhat expensive, and I dread to think how many full-fare penalties one accrues in a day doing the full network...

Thats why u dont use oyster for the full network.

Yeah, it's stupid though that the penalty goes above the cap! It makes it less attractive to use one's Oyster card, for fear of making a mistake when touching in and out.

It cost me a fortune to do the tram challenge recently, I still need to write to TFL and ask for some money back. I was charged a penalty fare despite swiping my card at every opportunity.

Did a 2h:06m:22s today

It would have been about 2h:03m if the had waited for a Cirle to Aldgate from Tower Hill. Nevermind...

The Raven wrote:Did a 2h:06m:22s today

It would have been about 2h:03m if the had waited for a Cirle to Aldgate from Tower Hill. Nevermind...

Only good enough for joint 9th position.

Shall I edit the first post to reflect the other times added in this thread?

I am adding them to my own webpages which are being uploaded.

This webpage will be at www.explorerticket.co.uk/tubechallenge/circbottle.htm in a few moments when I kick my FTP transfer into life.

tangy wrote:I am adding them to my own webpages which are being uploaded.

This webpage will be at http://www.explorerticket.co.uk/tubecha ... bottle.htm in a few moments when I kick my FTP transfer into life.

So this thread becomes obsolete then?

I am slowly building up a webpage for all the "Top Times" threads an hosting them on my own domain.

So far complete are: All lines, Bottle, Mouse, Tramlink, Overground and DLR pages. I am currently working through the other pages for say Zone 1, Random 15 etc. but these will take a little more time to compile.

These can be viewed through the main index page at www.explorerticket.co.uk/tubechallenge (but is very much still a work in progress).

Do you have any plans to put them on this forum, or did you only intend to link to them?