Londoners* - are there any Tube lines you haven't been on AT ALL?

never been on Waterloo & City line but covered everything else. i used to go out PRIMARILY to explore the tube in fact (went to Aldwycg when i heard it was closing). stations i've NOT passed:

Chesham (Metropolitan)
Mill Hill East, Kennington - Morden (Northern)
Cockfosters - Arnos Grove (Picadilly)
Epping - Snaresbrook, Woodford - Wanstead (Central)
Upminster Bridge - Upney (District)
Canning Town - Beckton (Docklands Light Railway)
North Greenwich - Westminster (Jubilee)
Lambeth North (Bakerloo)

so the only lines i've travelled in full are the Victoria and the Hammersmith & City

did anyone ever go to Ongar before it closed?

how far round has anyone been on the Circle line in one go, out of curiosity? anyone ever fallen asleep and woke up exactly where they started? your hilarious Circle line anecdotes here please...

or you could take a stroll thru Southwark Park, not been there, is it nice?

When I was new to London, when the underground still turned me on, I planned to one time spend an afternoon sitting on the circle line with a big book. I'm not gonna do it now.

i walked half of it a couple of months ago. kings cross-farringdon-barbican-moorgate-liverpool st-aldgate east-tower hill-monument-cannon st-mansion house-blackfriars-temple-embankment-westminster-st james park-victoria.

is a nice walk...

there was a news story on this recently with footage - nice idea in theory but my rampant claustrophobia would hinder any sense of enjoyment personally.

It's about a guy who accepts a bet to visit every underground station in one day, and is a true testament to nerdiness in fictional form. I quite enjoyed it.

*slinks out of thread with tail between legs*

har, the point is it would very difficult/tiresome to do that with every tube stations IN ONE GO

Other than that I have never used the Waterloo & City or Hammersmith & City lines... amazingly I don't think I'd ever used the Central Line until a mate of mine moved to Buckhurst Hill.

I'm sad to say I have been on them all, I've been to both far ends of most of them too, apart from the most Northerly bit of the Northern line, I've only been as far as Colindale on there.

its not that good, because i have a 15-20 minute bus journey on one side, and a 30-35 minute train journey on the other side, so its the only part of my journey that actually works well

Whose been on all the buses.

Why hasn't there been a 254 thread yet?

Re Epping and Ongar. I went on it a few times. Never got on or off at Blake Hall though.

The N63 is unaffected, you'll be pleased to hear. (I hate those pretentious night buses).

And it also means Chris T-T can do a follow up album. Yay!

Route splitting is annoying, I admit. But I really like making journeys across London with multiple changes. Being forced to get off at the Aldwych or Waterloo or somewhere and just be there for five minutes or so before continuing on your way on some other route adds interest, I find.

I think the bits I've missed are:
Victoria: Stockwell-Brixton, and N of Finsbury Park
Northern: Stockwell-Morden, Colindale-Edgware, N of Highgate.
Bakerloo: N of Paddington, S of Waterloo
Central: E of Stratford, the West Ruislip branch.
District: West Ham-Upminster, Putney Bridge-Wimbledon, the Richmond and Olympia branches.
East London: Shoreditch, New Cross Gate
H&C: Edgware Road-Hammersmith, West Ham-Barking
Jubilee: N of Baker St
Met: W of Gt. Portland St
Piccadilly: Finsbury Park-Cockfosters, Ealing Common-Uxbridge

(I did do Aldwych just before it closed, though; and also the W&C when it still had the 1940s trains that said 'Southern Railway' on them)

If you're at some sort of hub (Waterloo, Aldwych, Elephant etc.) you can sometimes just make it up as you go along. Take the first one that comes - might not take you exactly where you want to go and you might then have to take a 3rd bus or a 5 minute walk or something. Obviously not ideal on a wet day, of course.

N. 341 was 171a

73/10/390 to Euston change to a 91.
29 to Seven Sisters Road the 91.
24 to Camden then 29/253 to Seven sisters road or 134 - see below
134 to Archway then 41 (or 134 to Archway road and walk)
390 to Archway then 41
7 to Russell Square 91
38/19 to Kingsway then 91.
(Or k mentalist way to go - 19/38 to Angel 43 to Seven sisters Road then a 91 OR Archway then a 41).

I have also avoided routes which use the W7 (which would open up a load of Finsbury Park options) and the 210 as it means I have to walk up a hill as I am lazy.

Really? I used to get that bus into work in Farringdon, from Green Lanes. The other bus route from that stop is the 141. Are you saying there wasn't a 141 before the 171a changed its name or are you saying there was no 171b on Green Lanes? Cause I'm sure there weren't previously three routes at my stop (by the Brownswood pub). I am confused. I seem to recall you are a local so please enlighten me

Out here in Crystal Palace, two of the three Z1-bound routes have been cleaved (63 to 63/363, 2 to 2/432) and I fear a 3/303 scenario soon. Being at the junction of four or five boroughs, none of whom seem to have our best interests at heart, adds to the sense of being untethered and neglected. I think the staff at the Mu Mu noodle bar should run the area as a kind of satay-flavoured police state.

history of the 171a route

B-but, tumbling out of the Cheese on Fleet Street after last orders and straight on to 63 all the way home! No longer possible! After the 6-month tease of extending it past Honor Oak for services after 10:30pm.

http://www.buses.plus.com/LonRoutes1C.htm No 171b or 171 alongside it - that explains it.

The 171 once ran all the way to Forest Hill!

I remember the days of the 12 going all the way from Dulwich Plough to Shepherd's Bush.

as i live at the bottom of ptee's hill i have near infinate ways of getting home from TCR, however only 2 of these options involve the possibility of (real, proper) chips (rather than fries) after the pub, ie 390/134 to archway then 41/walk home

I wish the N89 is a great bus route, even though i got my iPod nicked on it last week. Sob. He was going to nick my phone too, but then decided it was k-rub and put it back (I was in a boozy coma at the time). Even so, the route is great at night and should be the day route too, as it goes past my house and v nr work. Boo hiss.

Quicker though -> walk through Southwark Station to Waterloo East, it only takes a minute.

haven't been on the london overground since it became overground. any good?

same, except you can use pay as you go oyster on it now which is good

The Waterlogg and City line is a wonderful thing, i used to use it all the time.

One time, i wasn't quick enough getting off the Waterloo end, and got stuck on the shunt end, and had to wait five mins until it pulled into the station on the outward journey until I got off.

when are they introducing the new look trains (nice except for the colour scheme - i hate the white+orange)?

I still haven't been on the East London Line or the Waterloo & City, but have done the Epping section of the Central now, having been to a wedding reception in Brentwood and gone home to Oxford on the Oxford Tube from Marble Arch. I don't think I'd gone further east than Mile End previously.

What was the deal with closing Shoreditch station? Was no-one using it? I read that they were actually going to fill in the cutting and build on it....craziness!

they're building a new shoreditch station i thought - and east london line will end up joining highbury and islingotn tube station. it will rock

ShepsBush station (Central line only) is closed from Feb 2 to MID OCTOBER. for escalator something or other. i can only imagine they are putting them together an atom at a time.

Melbourne's train system is shit, but at least they don't close half the network every weekend. Is that normal? In July we had to do so much walking it was ridiculous.

And yeah, the whole closing stations for 18 years to replace a screw.

you're better off walking in July anyway, it gets so hot down there with no aircon.

It was 19 when we were there (that's winter in Melb), so the only problem I had was 'er indoors whinging about how cold it was.

(apart from all the walking, obv)

last July was pretty cool even by our standards

And wet. We went from the longest drought in Aus history (no watering gardens, no washing cars, no crying &c.) to seeing your floods on the telly.