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do you think that, between us, we have either embarked or disembarked at every single tube stop? perhaps we should put it to the test? do it in groups of 5 to start off with? dlr counts too

arsenal
finchley central
deptford bridge
kentish town
victoria

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

mile end
aldgate east
bethnal green
manor house
angel

whitechapel
fulham broadway
clapham north
clapham common
clapham south

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have the whole of the East London Line covered. Clever me.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have the entire (old school, including Charing cross) Jubilee line. and most of the new too.

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Acton Town
South Ealing
Northfields
Boston Manor
Ealing Common

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ealing Broadway
Turnham Green
Chiswick park
Gunnersbury
East Acton

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Greenford
Perivale
Park Royal
Hounslow East
Hatton Cross

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Alperton
Sudbury Town
Wembley Central
Rayners Lane
West Acton

thats my lot

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Five not yet mentioned, frequented by me:

West Ham
Brixton
Stockwell
Old Street
Cutty Sark for Greenwich Maritime

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

shepherd's bush (hammersmith & city line and central line)
goldhawk road
woodford
south woodford

also!
debden
loughton
hangar lane
temple
moorgate

― katie (katie), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

New Cross for me, at the least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Balham
Westminster
Liverpool Street
Finsbury Park
Ongar

...apparently they had scorpions at Ongar tube station so we went there, and couldn't find any.

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

vauxhall
rayner's lane
kensington olympia
hammersmith
uxbridge (piccadilly and metropolitan lines)

― katie (katie), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Blake Hall

― David (David), Monday, 23 September 2002 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

District Line : I've got on/off at all stations on Western branches (Richmond, Wimbledon and Ealing B/way)

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've been to everywhere west of Whitechapel on the Hammersmith and City Line (but nowhere East of there).

I've been to every station on the Waterloo and City Line too, ho ho.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

that would be the "sink" line wouldn't it Tim?

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

They call it the Drain round my way. Which is next to the sink...

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Gants Hill
Barkingside
Fairlop
Chigwell
Loughton

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can claim the strays from the Piccadilly Line Heathrow branch that jel hasn't been to:
osterley
hounslow central
hounslow west
heathrow terminal 4
heathrow terminals 1,2,3

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Russell Square
Holborn
Covent Garden
Leicester Square
Piccadilly

Tufnell Park
Kentish Town
Camden Town
Chalk Farm
Belsize Park

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 23 September 2002 12:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hampstead instead of Kentish Town above. I missed Gareths earlier mention.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Following on from jel and Jeff : Northfields

Also out that way :

West Ruislip
Ruislip Gardens
South Ruislip
East Acton
White City

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wood Green

Bow Road

Bow Church

Notting Hill Gate

Bayswater

― Richard Jones (scarne), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

End of the line grandstanding collection:

Chesham
Chalfont & Latimer
High Barnet
Cockfosters
Morden

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Elephant and Castle
Stockwell
Tooting Bec
Blackfriars
Green Park

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

East finchley (i think)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kensington Olympia
Stratford
Farringdon
Willesden Junction
West Hampstead

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haha then I claim Tooting Broadway and Oval. And Harrow on the Hill. And Colindale. And...

... I am not looking at this thread anymore.

*ashamed*

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Totteridge and Whetstone
East Finchley
Colliers Wood
Pinner
Clapham Common

Also

Elephant and Castle
Rayners Lane
Eastcote
Leytonstone
Bayswater

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Amersham
Edgware
Burnt Oak
Colindale
Turnpike Lane

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Manor House
Finsbury Park
Stratford
Dagenham East
Mudchute
Island Gardens
East Ham
Walthamstow

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Royal Oak

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 13:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bounds Green
Highgate
Marble Arch
Hammersmith
Wimbledon

― chrisb (chrisb), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

southfields
putney bridge
west kensington
south kensington
sloane square

― zebedee (Jeff W), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

No! No! I've already said west ken, wimbledon, Putney Bridge, etc etc
I said all West District branches! Maybe I should've said from Earls Court outwards to be clearer. In other words incl West Ken, Barons Ct, Hamm, Ravensct Pk, Stamford Brook, Turnham Gn as well as everything on the branches proper.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

i do not like this cheating of saying i've been in this whole section. it was supposed to be saying 5 stations and then gradually wittling them down until we saw which ones were left:(

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

My way we see which ones are left faster!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, I think you'll find I had Elephant and Castle first...

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

FITE!! (yippee)

― zebedee (Jeff W), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

you can only do whole lines if you can do FIVE whole lines

i sound like something by irvine welsh

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 23 September 2002 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Archway
Greenwhich DLR
Canary Warf
Canada Water
Oxford Circus

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tottenham court road
Picadilly Circus
Baker Street
Ladbrooke Grove
Nottinghill Gate

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Liverpool Street as a replacment for Ladbrooke Grove as it's been had.

Um,
Clapham North
Clapham south
Covent Garden
Waterloo
Great Portland street

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

And Ricky had Covent Garden and Picadilly, so

Camden
Kings Cross St Pancras

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mark S has monopolised Clapham...

Mansion House
Embankment
Bond Street
Baker Street
St John's Wood

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry Gareth I started the blanket claims it's my fault.

5 DLRs not yet mentioned:

Tower Gateway
Canning Town
Shadwell
Limehouse
Custom House

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

okay replace the Claphams with
Highbury and Islington and Angel

(But I had Baker Street)

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Didja? Piss...

Hmm. Southwark, then, if it exists (I swear it does...)

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

London Bridge
Borough
Kennington

I am the king of the South.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 23 September 2002 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hello DG!

Hainault
Grange Hill
Roding Valley

and we complete that section of the Central!

Changing trains counts, I see from the instructions, so:

Leytonstone.

Liverpool St.

(Can't believe, even after going through this thread three times checking for various stations, that no-one's yet had that. I apologise for missing it in the very likely event that they have).

― Tim Bateman, Monday, 23 September 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

No one's said Green Park yet. I just can't believe I have anything to add.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 23 September 2002 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

this goes out to all my homies on the westside

Amersham
Croxley
South Kenton
Goldhawk Road
Putney Bridge

― blueski, Monday, 23 September 2002 18:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

highbury/islington!

― dave k, Monday, 23 September 2002 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lewisham
Crossharbour
Cyprus
Heron Quays
Knightsbridge
Euston Square
Goodge Street

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I said Green Park. I've got off at a few others... but I can't remember their names.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 23 September 2002 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

You people are so sad.

― david h (david h), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, yeah, I bet in a few weeks you will post a sister thread based on the paris underground! :)

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ladbroke Grove
Holland Park

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Monument
Bank
Gloucester Road
Lambeth North
Tower Hill
Barbican
Manor House

I've been to the darkest depths of Morden too, in the dead of night. Not nice.

― Leo, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Rotherhithe
Elm Park
Brent Cross
Mill Hill East
Aldwych

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 07:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'd better snag:
Blackhorse Road
Tottenham Hale
Kingsbury
Dollis Hill
Willesden Green

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

so how are we doing?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

mornington crescent.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Temple. Aldate East. Mansion House. Chancery Lane. St. Pauls.

Shepherds Bush (both) Ladbroke Grove Latimer Road Holland Park

Regents Park Baker Street Holborn St.Johns Wood Covent Garden

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 08:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think there are some holes in East London: I can add (I don't think they've been done) Newbury Park, Bethnal Green, Leyton, Whitechapel, West Ham, Plaistow, Upton Park and Barking. The District beyond there might be among the more difficult areas to complete.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

DG to thread!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

new cross gate
swiss cottage
rickmansworth
hyde park corner
high street kensington

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

I dunno about a sister Paris thread but I could do a Glasgow one no problem.....

― Anonymous (Anonymous), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:24 (twenty years ago) link

I thought this thread was a babytalk response to yesterday's tube strike.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 September 2002 12:48 (twenty years ago) link

YESSS! Another Glaswegian. The funny thing is I've not stopped at all the Glasgow stops yet.

― david h (david h), Thursday, 26 September 2002 13:16 (twenty years ago) link

it seems no one's had euston yet (unless they've misspelt it), so i'll have that, both lines :)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 September 2002 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

beckton
harlesden
west finchley
finchley road
warwick avenue

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 27 September 2002 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

I might as well polish off the Victoria Line (the only one I know bak to front and in and out)

Seven Sisters
Pimlico (the only Victoria Line station with no interchange, fact fans)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

Harrow & Wealdstone
Pinner

― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:01 (twenty years ago) link

The remaining bits of the East London Line, for clarity's sake: Shoreditch, Wapping, Surrey Quays, Shadwell. Bermondsey, since we're in the area.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:04 (twenty years ago) link

No one use the Bakerloo past Paddington?

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:19 (twenty years ago) link

Why would you do that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:20 (twenty years ago) link

H+W is Rick.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:21 (twenty years ago) link

Ah, missed that one.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

I've definitely got on or off at
Maida Vale and
Willesden Junction.

(possibly Kensal Green and Kilburn Park too, but am not certain.)

― zebedee, Friday, 27 September 2002 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

poplar
east india
west india quay

― zebedee, Friday, 27 September 2002 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

what's left?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:54 (twenty years ago) link

There's mark s again with his left/right block.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

quite a few, esp on the metropolitan line

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 27 September 2002 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

Harrow On The Hill
Northolt
Hillingdon
South Harrow

― Jeff W, Friday, 27 September 2002 13:10 (twenty years ago) link

to complete the circle:
st james' park
blackfriars
aldgate
edgware road (also: bakerloo line one)
paddington

plus:
Queensway
Lancaster Gate

― zebedee, Friday, 27 September 2002 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

ten months pass...

but who will be first to west silvertown, pontoon dock, london city airport, and king george v?

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 10 August 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

me, with better access to the docks i expect to start a new career, doing favours for sailors...

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

rickmansworth
moor park
watford
northwood
northwood hills

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

pinner
hillingdon
ickenham
ruislip
ruislip manor

eastcote
rayners lane
west harrow
northwick park
queensbury

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:03 (twenty years ago) link

i think Chorleywood is a problem - unless Tim Hopkins has been there, i've only passed by it

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

north acton
kew gardens
north ealing
west brompton
east putney

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

remaining stations in west london (not including Bakerloo stations) which i consider more north:

chorleywood
sudbury hill
parsons green
wimbledon park
lancaster gate
queensway

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 10 August 2003 19:34 (twenty years ago) link

are you listing places you have been to or that you haven't? I've lost track.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 August 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

I've departed and entered at every stop along Toronto's subway line! So that's that covered.

― Alexis (Alexis), Sunday, 10 August 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

My wife's in the middle of a project where she's taking a photo within a block of every subway station in New York City: see Station to Station for samples!

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 10 August 2003 20:57 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

arnos grove
southgate
oakwood
mill hill east
tufnell park

there are still a high number unclaimed it would appear (im amazed tufnell park hadnt been claimed until now)

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 4 April 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

https://twotter.com/schizarella/status/1703190364801339483?s=20

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:04 (one week ago) link

Lol

when you see someone recording just walk behind the camera or wait literally ten seconds, if you can't do this then you don't deserve to be part of a civilized society pic.twitter.com/5Gy1hUsNDu
— misha꙳ (@schizarella) September 16, 2023

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:05 (one week ago) link

hope I see one of these so I can do the slowest walk possible past them

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:52 (one week ago) link

this must be bait. must be

― imago, Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:11 (one week ago) link

do we have the elizabeth line covered lads? With ilx's dwindling membership I kinda doubt it...

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:25 (one week ago) link

sometimes take it from Liverpool St to Tottenham Court Rd, big platforms but not worth knocking down The Astoria tbh

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 17 September 2023 19:31 (one week ago) link

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