Travelling On Every Underground/Overground/Elizabeth Line: Possible?

[Sorcerer]

First time starting a thread in the Trip Planning section of the forums. Anyway, to cut to the chase, me and a friend are planning to travel to London next month for a challenge. Both starting and ending at Euston station, we want to travel on every Underground and Overground line along with the Elizabeth Line. However the catch to this will be that we are not allowing ourselves to use each line more than once or double-back on ourselves, and we are planning to try and attempt this challenge within the space of seven hours from nine to four avoiding the rush hour. Walking and using other forms of public transport is allowed.

Now I have asked ChatGPT if this is possible, and apparently with careful planning and making maximum use of interchange stations it should be possible to do this challenge. We will meeting up to do some proper planning tomorrow, however I also wanted to get any possible advice or words of wisdom from anyone on the forums since this is usually my go-to site for all the best railway information. So, is this challenge of mine possible? If so, do you have any tips or tricks that might help us in getting it done, and do you also have any other suggestions that might make it more interesting or fun to do?

I look forward to hearing what you all have to say!

 

[Dr Hoo]

I presume that you mean ‘a bit of…’ every line? (Yes, I know that things like the Waterloo and City or Romford-Upminster would probably be done in full.)

 

[Sorcerer]

I presume that you mean ‘a bit of…’ every line? (Yes, I know that things like the Waterloo and City or Romford-Upminster would probably be done in full.)

Yes indeed. Travelling the entire lengths would need a lot more than seven hours based on planning we did today which actually let us fit in some of the DLR and Thameslink but at the cost of not using every Overground line (we only use it once).

 

[Hadders]

Diamond Geezer did a very similar challenge back in 2015.

diamond geezer

diamondgeezer.blogspot.com

 

[steamybrian]

I wonder in how many days are you planning to do this if only travelling between 0900-1600hrs.
Some lines have only a limited service running only outside the above times some examples are-
Wandsworth Road- Battersea Park
Rickmansworth- Croxley
Earls Court- Kensington Olympia

 

[zero]

As DG was able to finish the tube lines in less than an hour, I imagine that it should be easily possible to add in Crossrail, DLR and overground in 7 hours.

I would say the "PSUL" stuff just counts as Windrush / Met / District.

 

[AM9]

I had mused on something like this earlier this year. The sort of rules I would work to are:
Using an outboundary Travelcard, starting from the earliest off-peak journey into zone 1, travel at least one stop on every line listed on the key of the TfL 'London's Rail and Tube' map With the exception of the Circle and Waterloo & City lines, each journey mus include a station outside zone 1. This includes only those with at least two stops in the zones 1-6. The lines are as follows:
LU - total 11
Overground lines - total 6
Elizabeth Line
DLR
London Trams
National Rail total of 10 lines *
* Excluded from the map's NR list are those that aren't included in a zone 1-6 Travelcard:
EMR, GEX, Heathrow Express, Luton Airport DART and SE HS. For the same reason, the Boris Dangleway is excluded.

Connections between lines outside interchange stations can be by any means including TfL buses.

 

[tram21]

I wonder in how many days are you planning to do this if only travelling between 0900-1600hrs.
Some lines have only a limited service running only outside the above times some examples are-
Wandsworth Road- Battersea Park
Rickmansworth- Croxley
Earls Court- Kensington Olympia

You only need to ride a part of a line, so you'd just avoid these sections!!