Trip report from a Complicated Weekend

[walkingsophie]

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Complicated Weekend

This weekend I will be doing quite a few weird journeys and even I am not sure about the best way to do them. For context, I have a 16-25 railcard and am willing to do any kind of routeing shenanigans that I can book with an itinerary On Friday, I will be leaving Upper Halliford at 07:23 and...

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Trip Report:
I ended up finding a glitched itinerary via KGX to my original planned hiding spot on trainsplit that was only a couple pounds more expensive than the ticket to Richmond. I had to do the standard talking to people at the gatelines in London use my ticket. It turned out I was the seeker first so I ended up buying a Z1-6 off-peak travel card. My overall journey when seeking ended up being KGX -> Farringdon -> Tottenham Court Road -> Ealing Broadway -> Ealing Common -> Acton Town -> Sudbury Town -> Ealing Common -> Acton Town -> Boston Manor -> Northfields
Then we headed back to KGX and I went to my hiding spot via London Bridge. There was literally no shops within 500 metres of the station so I literally had to Uber Eats some water along the way. After getting caught I headed to Tottenham Hale then went to Cambridge with the weekend out return. I ended up taking a total of 20 train that day

 

[Haywain]

via KCX

Presumably King's Cross? Correct 3-letter code is KGX.

 

[walkingsophie]

Yes, edited to fix

 

[The exile]

There was literally no shops within 500 metres of the station so I literally had to Uber Eats some water along the way.

Welcome to the normal world. Not sure how there could be metaphorical shops within 500m of the station either….

 

[blimmo]

Welcome to the normal world. Not sure how there could be metaphorical shops within 500m of the station either….

What? I would expect there to be a shop selling water within 500m of a busy station.

mods note - following on from this thread:

Complicated Weekend

This weekend I will be doing quite a few weird journeys and even I am not sure about the best way to do them. For context, I have a 16-25 railcard and am willing to do any kind of routeing shenanigans that I can book with an itinerary On Friday, I will be leaving Upper Halliford at 07:23 and...

www.railforums.co.uk

Trip Report:
I ended up finding a glitched itinerary via KGX to my original planned hiding spot on trainsplit that was only a couple pounds more expensive than the ticket to Richmond. I had to do the standard talking to people at the gatelines in London use my ticket. It turned out I was the seeker first so I ended up buying a Z1-6 off-peak travel card. My overall journey when seeking ended up being KGX -> Farringdon -> Tottenham Court Road -> Ealing Broadway -> Ealing Common -> Acton Town -> Sudbury Town -> Ealing Common -> Acton Town -> Boston Manor -> Northfields
Then we headed back to KGX and I went to my hiding spot via London Bridge. There was literally no shops within 500 metres of the station so I literally had to Uber Eats some water along the way. After getting caught I headed to Tottenham Hale then went to Cambridge with the weekend out return. I ended up taking a total of 20 train that day

How does your hide and seek game work?

 

[The exile]

What? I would expect there to be a shop selling water within 500m of a busy station.

No indication of whether the destination station was a busy one (can’t have been London Bridge itself as it’s full of shops(.

 

[rmHawk765]

How does your hide and seek game work?

Possibly the Jet Lag: Hide & Seek game, you can find it on YouTube and they sell the stuff to play the game yourself. I've played it across London, it's a good bit of fun with the right people.

 

[walkingsophie]

Possibly the Jet Lag: Hide & Seek game, you can find it on YouTube and they sell the stuff to play the game yourself. I've played it across London, it's a good bit of fun with the right people.

It is indeed based on that

What? I would expect there to be a shop selling water within 500m of a busy station.

The hiding station was not a busy station, it was some random station in the south east. I have not said which station is it to not make the glitch ticket I have used obvious

 

[Haywain]

. I have not said which station is it to not make the glitch ticket I have used obvious

You said above it was a Travelcard you were using.

 

[walkingsophie]

You said above it was a Travelcard you were using.

I used an anytime glitch ticket for the start, and a travelcard for the seeking.

 

[Haywain]

I used an anytime glitch ticket for the start, and a travelcard for the seeking.

And the hiding? All that's being asked is which station it was with no shop within 500 metres.

 

[walkingsophie]

And the hiding? All that's being asked is which station it was with no shop within 500 metres.

The hiding place was the destination of the glitch ticket which I do not wish to share, but for example Beckenham Hill station also has no shops within 500 metres

 

[walkingsophie]

Way back decided to break my journey at Harlow, and it was a really nice place to have a day trip I can completely recommend it to people who are fans of Milton Keynes.
I ended up on the 1x per hour train to Hackney Downs, then my overground train got stuck at H&I behind a freight train with a fault, so I had to reroute via London and barely made the last train home.