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Wow, I'm impressed. I've track bashed the whole network and walked in and out of about half of the stations, but it has taken me nearly 6 decades!
OK I've never lived or worked in London, but to do what you have in a year is quite something.
Richard K | 31.12.16 - 7:20 a.m. | #
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Maybe could do some similar with bus routes? Not everyone in London uses the tube...I for one stopped using it in the mid-1980s!
OnTheBus | 31.12.16 - 7:25 a.m. | #
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Mill Hill East isn't ticked off on the second map - looks like its highlighted on the first.
dg writes: Yes.
Still anon | 31.12.16 - 7:36 a.m. | #
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The only part of this that I find surprising is that you still use a traditional diary!!
Frank F | 31.12.16 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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Does the Isle of Wight count as abroad?
Victor Vectis | 31.12.16 - 9:22 a.m. | #
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Everyone has their own idea of what they need to "complete" a certain map. So simply travelling through every station does count for me and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
Same goes for you, Victor Vectis.
Anyway I have travelled on every rail route in London (and the surrounding counties) with a scheduled passenger rail service (according to PSUL), and am working my way through the rest of Great Britain. I exit at the stations I want to exit at and that's it.
John | 31.12.16 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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I know the tube map is iconic and all, but if you really wanna go the whole hog? You want the full rail map. Especially if you live in the south, like me. Yes it means putting up with Southern and Southeastern, but it also means going to more places. Or maybe buses are just a better plan here, I guess.
That said, way back in February I did a pseudo-Tube challenge myself - not a full one, you understand, rather one where I just travelled on as much of every line as realistically possible. That was pretty brilliant.
EonLeader | 31.12.16 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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Do you do it with visits to NT / EH places too?
Even those who don't live in London can do that...
Erm, this is not an admission of anything mind ;)
Blue Witch | Homepage | 31.12.16 - 10:35 a.m. | #
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As you have an annual travelcard, I hope you buy it from one of the national rail companies that give you free tickets on top.
For instance South West Trains give you 6 free tickets valid anywhere across their network on Fridays ( some restrictions ) Saturdays and Sundays.
All the tickets are effectively day returns so that's 6 blog posts if you don't spend the night.
Anyone thinking of buying one should remember that season tickets go up about 1.8% on Monday morning so buy this weekend.
ap | 31.12.16 - 10:43 a.m. | #
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You didn't get off in Burnt Oak:(
Jim | 31.12.16 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Wow, certainly impressive.
Of course the GOBLIN, in part or whole, has been out of action for a good part of the year. South Tottenham seems to be ticked off though. Perhaps you went there to use the free WiFi. I sometimes do.
Bob L-S | 31.12.16 - 11:03 a.m. | #
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By the time I was 20, I had done the entire tube network, although not entered or exited every station (and have since kept up to date with more recent upstarts like the DLR).
I had also covered the entire BR network and the only tram systems then in operation in the UK (Manchester and Blackpool), although there are some recent re-openings I haven't caught up with yet, such as Corby.
But this year, I can recall fewer than twenty Tube journeys, of which half were on the District Line.
timbo | 31.12.16 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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Wow! Though not surprised!
To get to just about everywhere I ever need to go in London from my house I just need to use 4 lines, which in order of usefulness are
1. Metropolitan
2. Jubilee
3. Central
4. Piccadilly
Cornish Cockney | 31.12.16 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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My theory that ticking things off on lists, like aircraft and train spotting, was a uniquely British phenomenon was instantly disproved when I saw she was a South African / Argentine!
Tim | 31.12.16 - 11:55 a.m. | #
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In case you think my list shows I don't get out much, I have also made about 450 journeys on SWT and a similar number on Boris Bikes!
timbo | 31.12.16 - 11:58 a.m. | #
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I've done the entire tube network (tracks) in the past and have used nearly all the stns (some of that being work related rather than for other reasons). However this year I've only made 69 tube / rail (incl DLR & Overground) trips. Thus far there have been 383 bus journeys, many of them local. Yes I'm sad enough to log them all. So nowhere near DG's amazingly prolific total of jnys around London.
PC | 31.12.16 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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As a Tube Challenger who lives outside London, my map showing stations exited would look rather odd, with a random smattering of Z1 stations, and generally the rest either at or one stop away from the end of the line!
Al | 31.12.16 - 12:33 p.m. | #
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I can now cross off West Ruislip too.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 31.12.16 - 12:49 p.m. | #
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When you are so close to completing the whole lot in a year, are you not tempted, come Christmas, to spend a quick day finishing the job ? ;)
Andy Norman | 31.12.16 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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Does anyone else count crossovers? So for example Embankment outer rail, but getting a train to Temple from the platform normally used for trains to Westminster? Requires a rather close reading of the engineering work and a decent track diagram.
Cricketer8for9 | 31.12.16 - 4:08 p.m. | #
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Not just crossovers or accessing things like the turn back platform at 7 Sisters.
Some stuff is really quite rare - and can't be planned. Like entering and exiting the turn back siding at Woodford on a normal southbound passenger service.
And realising you've done it!!
Peter Cummings | 31.12.16 - 4:20 p.m. | #
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I live in south London where we don't have much of a tube network....
Chris | 31.12.16 - 8:02 p.m. | #
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Forgive me if you've covered this before, or it's off-topic, but which is your favourite carriage on these tube journeys, and what is the frequency distribution of your choice of carriage?
I like to sit in the middle one if I don't have much luggage, completely different to my choice on the main line.
Jimmy | 31.12.16 - 8:39 p.m. | #
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I think, even after 10 years in London, there are some parts of the tube network I've not been to, never mind alighted at the stations.
(There are a couple of London boroughs I've not been to yet - though my daughter had been to all of them by her first birthday.)
martin | 01.01.17 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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Rare stuff done...
The curve from what was then the East London Line to and from the District Line.
I remember being very impressed by that even though I was very small. It was a special train put on to mark the end of the Q Stock in the early 1970's.
ap | 01.01.17 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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First station of 2016: Roding Valley
First station of 2017: Mornington Crescent
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.01.17 - 11:46 a.m. | #
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I don't think I'd be much good at this :(
I think the last time I used an underground was in Paris in 2011
RogerW | 02.01.17 - 8:38 p.m. | #
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