Mornington Crescent

[BayPaul]

As it is the 6th Thursday of the month, and so the Circle line is forming a Mobius loop it seems churlish not to take advantage of the skip-stopping this entails and proceed directly to Stepney Green

 

[DerekC]

That's much better - so I will just let the current carry me swiftly to Ampere Way.

 

[Romsey]

Stretching the inductance loop a bit - Lots Road.
( I know it was a power station, but owned by LT to supply the Underground.)

 

[DerekC]

Hmm - how do Blenkinsop's 1838 rules apply to power stations? A tricky one. I have a feeling that non-station assets are only allowed on a rack railway, but the MC rules server is down at the moment so I can't check. The only solution is to move on quickly to Gunnersbury and hope Blenkinsop doesn't wake from his long sleep.

 

[A Challenge]

I see him stirring, better escape to the other side of London to Dagenham East

 

[BayPaul]

As we are not using Tudor Court rules, I believe the Ford worker's ferry is in play, so since it is so convenient Belvedere

 

[A Challenge]

Back onto almost Crossrail just along the line at Abbey Wood

 

[DerekC]

Aagh - don't mention the C-word! To prevent disaster I now have to do a factory reset and start again - after all that effort to get to Level 7, it's very disappointing. Amersham.

 

[Mag_seven]

I've found Dr Who's Tardis (they stupidly left the door open) however instead of transporting me to the planet Argues in the 6000th millennium BC (yes I know) it dumped me at Clapham Common.

 

[DerekC]

The planet Argos sounds uninviting anyway. I planned to head up to the West End but that random fault in the autopilot hit me again and after seventeen non-stop trips round the Circle Line I find myself, inevitably, at Edgware Road.

 

[A Challenge]

don't mention the C-word!

What's wrong with Chesham? It's a perfectly good move on exit from the Tardis, as it might as well be time travel going all the way out there.

Hang on, they put a steam loco on the front of the train at Rickmansworth...

 

[DerekC]

It's Old Chainey! The Tardis must be working after all - we can push things right out to the limits of space and time .. Brill

 

[Mag_seven]

Due to a massive anaphylactic shock in the heart of the tardis caused by a reverse versa in a Poynting Vector, the tardis has now failed somewhere between Pluto and Kilburn.

 

[BayPaul]

Ditching the Tardis, as, like a taxi, it refuses to head south of the river, New Cross Gate (almost went for New Cross, but realised I could gain a useful triple word score there)

 

[Master Cutler]

My tardis has stopped working, which is strange as it was working perfectly tomorrow, so this leaves me only one option, Balham.

 

[Loppylugs]

Yes, the tardis has obviously been doctored and has improperly sent me wrong line down the hypotenuse on the short trip to Colliers Wood.

 

[DerekC]

Colliers Wood - the name that even the Wise fear to speak. Yet to enter here may be to escape from the Eye. Let us once again pass through the uncharted darkness to Tooting Broadway.

 

[Romsey]

Well I'm going to womble across to Southfields. Nothing wise, just unremarkable suburbia.....

 

[Loppylugs]

Being an exiled womble, I am going to pick up all the strawberry and cream containers at Southfields and dump them at Northfields.

 

[DerekC]

Wombles are not licensed to operate outside the London Borough of Merton, so I am afraid that counts as fly-tipping. The best I can do is to transport the whole lot to Imperial Wharf for dispatch down the Thames.

 

[DerekC]

We are in danger of drifting into Nidd by default, I fear. I consulted Stovold's Almanac and the advice given in such circumstances is to shake up the game by posting something which obviously breaks all the rules, so I am going to abandon all precedent, ignore the fact that it's Friday and the moon is in the fourth quarter and slam down Little Steeping.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Finally.
That now enables me to move to Trehafod.

 

[DerekC]

The feeling of release is amazing, but we still need to tread softly for fear of waking them. Velvet Hall.

 

[Mag_seven]

The feeling of release is amazing, but we still need to tread softly for fear of waking them. Velvet Hall.

Its taken me exactly 72 hours to hop with one arm tied behind my back (as per the exurbian rules of movement) from there to Rayners Lane.

 

[DerekC]

According to Gurgle Maps it's 333 miles from Velvet Hall to Rayners Lane by the shortest hopping route. Therefore I calculate that you hopped at 4.625mph which is, as I am sure you are aware, well in excess of the maximum velocity set by the exurbian rules for the normal case. However to be fair, since you have chosen Rayners Lane you may be able to apply to the judges for an exception to be made on the grounds of insanity. In which case the best thing is to move quickly along to Neasden

 

[Journeyman]

I'm going out on a limb here. Sometimes you just have to take risks.

Verney Junction.

 

[DerekC]

Not sure about going out on a limb - can we see the wood for the trees? Stovold is quite clear about that sort of thing. Forest Gate.

 

[Loppylugs]

I'm branching out here in this tropical heatwave and rooting for a move to leafy Burnt Oak.

 

[ainsworth74]

It seems that the thread has vanished into an unexpected geographically anomaly. Therefore I think the best bet is to play Colfax California.

 

[transportphoto]

Controversial. Must be discussed at great length and with much filibustering.

Westminster.