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Tube Challenge '07

Tube Challenge '07 - The Route

The theme of this years Children in Need was
"Do Something Different", therefore we opted to start from Chesham. As far as we knew no other attempt had started from Chesham & finished at Amersham, so this really was different.

Our first train was the 05:19 to Watford, which departed on time, The next train left Watford one minute late and was held outside of Croxley, so unfortunately we just missed the bus at North Harrow.

The first run was 1.2 km to Rayners Lane in sub zero temperatures, it was a bit of a shock to the system!

Planned Runs During the Challenge (or possible bus connections)
North Harrow to Rayners Lane	1.2km - Scheduled for 06:10 (Missed our bus so had to run)
Park Royal to Hanger Lane	0.7km - Scheduled for 06:43
West Ruislip to Ickenham	1.1km - Scheduled for 07:04
Northwick Park to Kenton	440m - Scheduled for 07:50
Gunnersbury to Chiswick Park	0.9km - Scheduled for 13:00
Kensington (Olympia) to Hammersmith	1.4km - Scheduled for 13:54 (luckily the bus came!)
Morden Road (Tram) to Morden	0.9km - Scheduled for 14:34 (not needed got 94 bus direct to Morden)
Bramley Road (Bus Stop) to Cockfosters	0.9km - Scheduled for 16:56
Fenchurch Street to Aldgate	280m - Scheduled for 18:52
Liverpool Street to Shoreditch	1.3km - Scheduled for 18:57 (Shoreditch aborted due behind schedule)
New Cross to New Cross Gate	0.6km - Scheduled for 19:41
Great Portland Street to Goodge Street	0.9km - Scheduled for 21:35
Edgware to Canons Park	1.6km - Scheduled for 22:16 (340 bus came so didnt need to run)
Baker Street to Marylebone	440m - Scheduled for 23:11
TOTAL DISTANCE	12.7km

Amersham was the last station to be visited. Kevin & Antony made the last connection at Baker Street with 4 minutes to spare and arrived at Amersham at 00:58 which gave them a time of 19 hours 39 minutes. Jack & James had to abort at Wembley Central as Jack had damaged his knee, however the lads went back out on Saturday and did the last few stations to record a time over 30 hours!

Amersham is the furthest station from the centre of London (27 miles) and also the highest at 490ft above sea level.

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