please empty your brain below
Well done. and I will definitely not be accepting this challenge. 😉

Jo W | 04.10.23 - 7:18 a.m. | #

Wondering what would happen if you start at TCR?

Colly | 04.10.23 - 7:34 a.m. | #

I wouldn't have done it like that.

Walk from Piccadilly Circus to Charing Cross, Northern to Leicester Square, then Piccadilly to Covent Garden, walk to Tottenham Court Road.

dg writes: that doesn't enter or exit Leicester Square

Still Anon | 04.10.23 - 7:44 a.m. | #

Here's a thought (that I'm sure you will have already had at some point...) - do you actually need to include Regents Park? Despite what the tube map shows, the street-level entrance to it appears to be just *north* of a straight line linking the entrances of Gt Portland St and Baker St, so technically could you say it is outside the Circle?

dg writes: But reality says it's inside.

Colly | 04.10.23 - 8:03 a.m. | #

Round the (Tube) Rails We Go!

Mike | 04.10.23 - 8:26 a.m. | #

Watch Geoff Marshall now do it on his YouTube channel. 😄

Neil | 04.10.23 - 9:08 a.m. | #

why is cheese banned ?

dg writes: see here

Caroline | 04.10.23 - 9:19 a.m. | #

Tim Dunn would've made this into an 8-part series on Yesterday, with or without Siddy.

Frank F | 04.10.23 - 9:35 a.m. | #

Time well spent.

David B | 04.10.23 - 9:36 a.m. | #

Wishmas is being advertised on local trains in the West Midlands (not the ones that come down to Euston). When I saw the ads I assumed there was a Waterloo in Birmingham, but it seems they are aiming at a wide audience. At £29+ a go, I suppose they need to spread the net wide.

Andrew S | 04.10.23 - 9:36 a.m. | #

Hmmm... Your rules say each station can only be visited once, not only entered or exited only once.

Enter TCR by one entrance, exit by another, walk to Charing X avoiding Leicester Sq, enter it. Done.

Paul Ingerson | 04.10.23 - 10:08 a.m. | #

Somewhat similar to the Königsberg bridge problem.

Vic | 04.10.23 - 10:16 a.m. | #

Our local construction workers are eating sushi now. Well, some of them. Sushi doesn't seem like enough to sustain a physically hard worker.

When in our ignorance a couple of decades ago when we first visited London, we caught a train from Charing Cross to Embankment to then change to a train to somewhere. The Tube map lied.

Andrew | Homepage | 04.10.23 - 10:26 a.m. | #

I'm sure you've already got an answer lined up, so I'll ask: does it become possible if you consider Bank as one station with Monument and exclude it?

Michael T | 04.10.23 - 10:42 a.m. | #

If you miss out Bank, the only difference is that you can start by leaving St Pauls and walking to Chancery Lane. You then have, by The Rules, to take the tube from Chancery Lane somewhere, and to Holborn is the only option. But then you have to leave Holborn on foot. This means you can't now visit Russell Square, as that would require another visit to Holborn.

Timbo | 04.10.23 - 11:14 a.m. | #

A fascinating read too. I enjoy your pointless challenges.

Cornish Cockney | 04.10.23 - 11:20 a.m. | #

0h 24m) Crossrail is very practical to Heathrow... only if you can access a Crossrail station easily. When lugging a or many suitcases, if there is a direct journey, most people would take that -- and the Picc happens to have excellent coverage in Central London.

1h 12m) Weren't the Christmas decorations last year also dangling stars of some sort?

matthieu1221 | 04.10.23 - 11:30 a.m. | #

Could you pair Regent's Park with Warren Street, Oxford Circus with Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street with Russell Square, Holborn with Chancery Lane and St Paul's with Bank?

Starting by walking from Charing Cross to Leicester Square, going anticlockwise by walking from Covent Garden to Bank along Fleet Street, and then from Regent's Park to Tottenham Court Road via Fitzrovia?

Mikey C | 04.10.23 - 11:56 a.m. | #

I think that you could complete it by leaving out Bank, assuming you're allowed to start by exiting a station and end by entering a station - you could just exit TCR, do everything else, and then enter Charing Cross.

TW | 04.10.23 - 1:30 p.m. | #

£79 to meet Santa? Definitely a load of old baubles.

MKIan | 04.10.23 - 3:25 p.m. | #

I have a feeling (for no reason) this is solvable, probably by starting at Covent Garden or something like that.

I was looking at walking from Chancery Lane to Covent Garden, then walking from Russell Square to Warren Street etc. etc.

I wanted to leave TCR by walking to Oxford Circus so I can get the train to Regents Park then walk back to another station, but I keep on ending up on a train.

This complete waste of time is only possible thanks to agriculture, otherwise I'd be working on my smallholding or something.

Still Anon | 04.10.23 - 6:40 p.m. | #

Is it not made possible by walking from Queensway to Tottenham Court Road?

You end up finishing in Knightsbridge station.

dg writes: no, still misses a station.

Tom | 04.10.23 - 9:23 p.m. | #

It can't be done, its Covent Garden that mucks things up. Russell Sq/Holborn, Queensway/Lancaster Gate, Marble Arch/Bond Street & Knightsbridge/Hyde Park Corner all have to be paired. Once you get to Covent Garden either by walking or tube, every else has being used

Chr0me | 04.10.23 - 11:53 p.m. | #

In conclusion, go on a day that Covent Garden is closed.

TW | 05.10.23 - 7:05 a.m. | #

The recorded announcement at Victoria tube station tells people with mobility issue to use all the available lifts to reach their intended platform. Not some of the lifts, or all the necessary lifts but all of the lifts. Admittedly, they don't say you can only use each lift once but nonetheless it drives me mad thinking about anyone who feels they need to take the instruction at face value.

Tunnel Bore | 05.10.23 - 4:26 p.m. | #

Although you say dont use any other lines , could you actually - to save ? time , use the Waterloo and City , and Crossrail (which sort of has its own stations at Bond Street and TCR / Farringdon) to sort some of the mess?

dg writes: doesn’t help.

Railmaster London | 05.10.23 - 9:50 p.m. | #

What if you divided Tottenham Court Road down the ticket hall into two stations? They technically have separate escalators…

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