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For a short part through Ruislip and Eastcote it follows the route of 1908 Olympic Marathon.
dg writes: Indeed.
Plastic Man | 17.04.18 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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Great work. I've often wondered about cloning myself for a similar purpose. Can I end up on the Northern Line train in front of the one I'm already on by changing onto the Victoria at Stockwell and back again at Euston? How much longer would it have taken me from Theobald's Road to Victoria if I'd taken the 38 bus instead of cycling? etc. etc.
Well done for succeeding in this.
Lorenzo | 17.04.18 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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As one of the clientele the H13 is mostly unbothered by, I always go midweek for this very reason, making full use of the Hopper fare to cover the 2 short bus rides needed!
Ruislip Woods is my woods of choice for walking solitude and I do the entire circuit from Breakspear Road stop, round the top where you came in and back down the path you followed, but continuing onto the common at the end, where I can scrape the mud off my shoes in the grass before getting to the Water's Edge.
Cornish Cockney | 17.04.18 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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Hope the cloned dg will start a blog so we have two dg's to read each morning.
John | 17.04.18 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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An excellent way of describing what could otherwise have been a circular trip. The method described by Lorenzo above is, some physicists believe, exactly how light photons always take the quickest route. Of course, Lorenzo himself has to humanely terminate all the non-fastest instances of himself to avoid cluttering up space-time.
Another approach is to consider one of the DGs to be travelling backwards in time.
Malcolm | 17.04.18 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Malcolm - is this where I should mention the fascinating experiments with a double slit, which show that each photon does indeed go through both slits and then interfere with itself (steady matron) - but not if you detect which slit it went through.
Like Feynman posited for the electron, perhaps there is just one DG, travelling backwards and forwards though time.
Sorry, we were meant to be talking about buses...
Andrew | 17.04.18 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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Is there a bus stop M on the route?
dg writes: You can find out by clicking on the first map. Spoiler: no.
scrumpy | 17.04.18 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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So close! Patisserie Brione at 190 Field End Road, Eastcote, just a stones throw from the bus route would have given you an afternoon tea to remember.
BRIAN BERKE | Homepage | 17.04.18 - 12:58 p.m. | #
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@Brian Berke
or maybe a scone's throw?
None | 17.04.18 - 2:49 p.m. | #
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I think I might argue route 224 is very similar in terms of route shape and the nearness of its two ends.
Curiously was at Ruislip Lido meeting a friend today, and did your walk in reverse to get to Northwood Hills station.
Geoff Lumley | Homepage | 17.04.18 - 6:23 p.m. | #
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A colleague's father devised the current H13 timetable, so he'll be pleased that it seems to work okay, with almost enough contingency for a learner driver encounter.
I do like Ruislip Lido.
Andrew S | 17.04.18 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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What I'd like to know is how you managed to safely cross the Uxbridge Rd. with all those climbers near by?
Steven | Homepage | 17.04.18 - 9:04 p.m. | #
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Love the "unfortunate juxtaposition".
Great Aunt Annie | 18.04.18 - 12:18 a.m. | #
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I was once told a story - which may of course be complete fiction - of an H13 driver who wandered into the woods to relieve himself, and managed to get lost. Eventually he found his way to the terminus... but it was the wrong terminus, and not wanting to risk getting lost again, our hero decided to ride back to the other end by bus, much to the amusement of his colleague.
If there's any truth in this story, I do hope the poor chap kept his job.
Leo | 18.04.18 - 12:31 a.m. | #
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The R3 at the other end of town is a similar "almost tail toucher" but manages that several times along its route!
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 18.04.18 - 9:54 a.m. | #
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Other long gone routes managed this peculiar feat of almost ending up where they started from, include trolleybus route 645, from 'Stanmore' to Barnet via Cricklewood, and in lesser scale, trolley route 653 from Tottenham Court Road to Aldgate. Other (bus) routes, called 'horseshoe' by some, of this type have come and gone.
Joel | 18.04.18 - 1:00 p.m. | #
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