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A very long day beginning in Chesham and finishing at Heathrow T5, accompanied by the xcooler. All went well apart from narrowly missing a couple of bus connections (meaning a couple of unscheduled runs) and a missing 307. I'm sure Tangy was to blame. After all he works at Enfield Garage. This meant the earlier Olympia train was out of the question but we hit the big O at 20:27 with 10 mins to spare for the 20:38 Kensington Olympia-Earls Court service.

Having been delayed by the Piccadilly line earlier in the day at Rayners Lane, when we reached Acton Town late evening we weren't surprised to see it in meltdown again. Long waits of 10mins at Acton Town and 14mins at Heathrow T123, combined with signalling problems on the District at Richmond added 20 mins to our expected time in the last hour. Final time was 17:26:05 and a leisurely train back to Central London. Slightly disappointed with the time but it was my third FNC completion and a good enough time for Olympic Gold.

tufnellpark wrote:A very long day beginning in Chesham and finishing at Heathrow T5, accompanied by the xcooler. All went well apart from narrowly missing a couple of bus connections (meaning a couple of unscheduled runs) and a missing 307. I'm sure Tangy was to blame. After all he works at Enfield Garage.

Arriva lost the 307 route (it was based at Enfield garage) last year- it is now based at Potters Bar with Metroline.

Happy with my route and I reckon at least 30 mins could come of that time... There is no ELL now but incredible to think my time beat the GWR we got back in 2007 by just under 10 mins with a NW corner and back thrown in