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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The fastest route from Croydon to station on the Chiltern Main Line is to go to London Victoria on a fast train, then take the tube to Oxford Circus, then another tube from there to London Marylebone, and finally a final fast train from there to your destination. Four trains, and that might seem like [...]

Q: Does this train go to Park Royal?
I was on a Piccadilly Line train on the London Underground, and the train had just pulled in at Ealing Common, final destination Rayners Lane. As the train did call at Park Royal on it’s way to Rayners Lane, I answered yes.
After three questions, I am now on 2½ points [...]

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 [...]