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Steeevooo wrote:I would doubt it - having people who have a connection with tube challenge deciding the records fate would not make for very independent adjudication! The downside of course is that they really don't have the foggiest about what we do or what is actually involved.

RJSRdg wrote:I would have thought that most people who had "retired" long enough ago for their record to be broken and not to be too closely affiliated to the current batch of challengers would be impartial enough. (Though I can see it could be quite tempting for someone to come out of retirement if they saw a potential improvement to a submitted route!). Many sports have their records administered by their governing bodies - maybe we should have a governing body for Tube Challenging!

geofftech wrote:

RJSRdg wrote:I would have thought that most people who had "retired" long enough ago for their record to be broken and not to be too closely affiliated to the current batch of challengers would be impartial enough. (Though I can see it could be quite tempting for someone to come out of retirement if they saw a potential improvement to a submitted route!). Many sports have their records administered by their governing bodies - maybe we should have a governing body for Tube Challenging!

geofftech wrote:perhaps now it really is time that we have our own list of records/adjudicator who confirms record times.

andytube wrote:Not been on here for a while, but that is an amazing time. Always believed that there was many more minutes that could be knocked off the record, mainly due to the fact that not many people attempt the challenge. And if more people did, then there would be more routes calculated. But sounds like you've got an unbeatable route now! 2 years in planning. Very dedicated. You know how to get 15:37 now, hope you're both going to have another crack at it soon and get Guiness to recognise it.

Going Underground - did your cracker of a route get you a good time?

you must produce a witness statement from a Transport professional (Official TFL employee. Network Analyst or Signal engineer (preferably), who has reviewed the applicants logbook to validate applicants claim that:

‘… if we have a timed photograph of station A (e.g. Redbridge) which agrees to the recordings in the log book, and then a timed photograph of station B (e.g. Barkingside) which also agrees to the log book, on the same train (as evidenced by the train number recorded), then the inference must be that the intervening stations (e.g. Gants Hill and Newbury Park in this example) have also been visited as per the log book entries.

The witness will have to verify that the logbook shows that, by inference, all stations must have been visited. And provide full details, i.e.” station A and station Z were visited on train number 11039, therefore the intermediate stations B, C, D [etc.] must have been visited.”