The Tube Challenge

Heathrow 123 is the official terminus of the Heathrow branch, as that is where the trains take their lay-over time. However, once trains are running a ghost service to T5, the T4 will be the official terminus for the T4 branch, and T123 will be the terminus for trains bound for T5. Once T5 opens, th...

Glad you all had a good time. Shame I couldn't take part, as I'm now living in Australia.

Just one question, what happened to David and Ric, you usually do the Zone 1 much faster?

I will be leaving the country for pastures new in Australia (via Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile for a few months) at the start of next week. A big thanks to you all for the good times had in tube challenging, particularly the last two Zone 1 Challenges, and following nights out. I wish ...

I saw "For Ric", and thought he was dead.

I'm not too sure. Apparently there is some debate about the rules. It may been the case that they passed through many stations on expresses rather than on local trains.

Another article here:-
http://www.nypost.com/subway/subwayraces0.htm

Where's Geoff?

...and another webpage with info about an attempt in the 60s
http://www.gricer.com/anysrc/anysrc.html

Here is a website with info about a challenge attempt on the NYC subway. http://blog.myspace.com/subwaychallenge

Root wrote:SSLs are slower, less reliable, and (with the exception of the new District stock) have less pleasant trains.

The trains are not new, just refurbished. They are approx 25 years old.

Why is it that the Circle line is the most neglected of all the lines? Surely, as the centrepiece of London, it should be treated with care and affection by TfL. Instead of having a rubbishy "every 7.5 minutes" service, why not have one every 6 minutes? That would give 10 trains per hour, and would...

I was under the impression that because of the length of time that the loop has been closed the drivers route knowledge has lapsed, so trains will go around the loop without passengers for a few days. Any ideas if this is before or after this closure? That is the case. It will be after the closure,...

The closure is for new points and signalling to be put into the junction with the T5 branch.

The Space Train and S-stock are entirely different concepts. The S-stock designed for the SSLs will have conventional carriages, but with continuous walkways between cars. The Space Train concept for tube profile lines was an articulated train, which is where car ends share a bogie, and the car leng...

The A stock will start to be replaced by the S stock in approx 2010.

I recently found that the S-bahn seemed to be more frequent on the core sections than some of the U-bahn lines. The core sections of the S-bahn run every 3-3.5mins (17-19tph), whilst U1,3, and 4 only run every 5 mins (12tph) at peak times! A Berlin U-bahn challenge would be interesting as there are ...

Just use the Journey Planner to get the train times, which gives you all train times, but only accurate to the minute, instead of the half minute as per the WTT. Copying down a list of train times around the times in which you may be using that line, would use a lot less weight in your bag than havi...