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Many have shared their memories of events in London five years ago today. I didn’t move to London until 18 month later, but that day I left work, found out opened mouthed when meeting Ross at his house before driving down to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix, being held that weekend.
So my memory is [...]

I wait for Tube Challengers to run following the 2010 Zone One Challenge

Sam, supported by me, Steve and Tom, reaches the end of her World Record – Visit All Underground Stations Attempt. Anything under 17:12:43 beats the record…

I know I’m a bit of a tube geek sometimes, and this boils over into public transport sometimes, but this all stems from – essentially – the day I got a Y-P railcard and started going off round the country visiting prospective universities. The country was at my feet and what started as a mild [...]

Attempt 3
14th November 2008
Antony, Kevin, Jamie, Phil and Ryan Brown, and myself
Plans to go out before the annual Children in Need charity run did not come to fruition, despite a couple of research days out on the network with Andi. In the fallout from the Olympics and susbequent discussion I was able to accept an [...]

Attempt 2
24th July 2008
Steven Karahan, Andi James and myself
The Tube Olympics were organised as a mini festival of events over a fortnight during July 2008, and following only 2 months after my first attempt formed the perfect excuse to go out and try again. Our team from the May attempt reformed and took out the [...]

So yesterday 4th December 2009, I went out on my own in a bid to break the Guinness World Record for visiting every London Underground station, something which I had achieved back in 2006.
Todays network is very different to when I broke it previously, one major change was the removal of the East London Line [...]

Attempt 1
28th May 2008
Steven Karahan, Andi James and myself
What started out as just me and Steve Karahan turned into me, SK and Andi James – a welcome addition – to make a team of three, running Steve’s route (hey, he was an ex-World Record holder so knew his stuff). Kevin Brown was recruited to do [...]

I’m not talking the timeout rules or touching pink validation or validity based things that make this “cheap and easiest way to travel in London” an absolute nightmare – but more the things people do that can get right on my nerves, some of which are not necessarily Oyster specific…
2. “The swipe”
Every TfL leaflet in [...]

I’m not talking the timeout rules or touching pink validation or validity based things that make this “cheap and easiest way to travel in London” an absolute nightmare – but more the things people do that can get right on my nerves, some of which are not necessarily Oyster specific…
1: “Seek Assistance”
We all know that sometimes [...]

How on earth do you get into this kind of thing then? Well – for me – I was surfing and came across it, by accident, in the wake of the 7th July bombings of 2005. I came across the webpage of a charity tube challenge at www.tuberelief.co.uk and immediately warmed to the idea – [...]

I got into an outrageous… sport? Hobby? What’s the right word – I don’t know! Anyway, whatever it is, I got into it through reading about it on the internet. I always find other people’s accounts of it fascinating, and so, whilst I harbour no illusions of this being something that others will read and [...]

Greetings from a hazy Monday Croydon morning. This post will be very much stream of conciousness style – as I came on here without anything in particular to write about, but just the intention to write. Dangerous? Most certainly…
I commuted to my workplace in Croydonia from Watford today, on a tried and trusted route that [...]

In episode 1, we visit, for no apparent reason, Canon’s Park Tube Station…