Mornington Crescent

[Mustermark]

Congratulations on a fine hard fought victory (altough I would like an adjudication on the number of reverse diagonals which you played in the early stages of the game).

I believe i was bold with my reverse diagonals, and i would hold fast that my moves were legal. However, with a twenty move statute of limitations the challenge should have been made long since. I therefore contend that my superb, if a little underhand, victory should stand. And that hereby rests the case for the defense.

[Pengi]

Congratulations on a fine hard fought victory (altough I would like an adjudication on the number of reverse diagonals which you played in the early stages of the game).

I believe i was bold with my reverse diagonals, and i would hold fast that my moves were legal. However, with a twenty move statute of limitations the challenge should have been made long since. I therefore contend that my superb, if a little underhand, victory should stand. And that hereby rests the case for the defense.

Yes - without having goal line technology on all lines (apart from Hawkeye on the Wimbledon Tangent as has already been mentionned) it is hard to determine whether some of the 'borderline' moves were legal. However there were no challenges at the time so Mustermark's victory stands.

Regarding Mrs Trellis's text message, I suspect she was having difficulty using the keypad of her mobile phone.

[edwin_m]

Employing the ornamental but useless structures gambit:

Marble Arch

[Pengi]

Employing the ornamental but useless structures gambit:

Marble Arch

I have suffered with Marble Arch in my time - a painful foot complaint. It originates from walking on marbles.

[Mustermark]

Yes, Pendy, i think you are right that she was having keyboard finger malfunction. My wife used Welsh, Slovak, Polish and Australian to decipher a text intomating that your truffle pig would be yellow bludgeon without fragrant parsimonious. But does Mrs Trellis generally make any more sense than that?

[Mustermark]

Crouch Hill

[Pengi]

and then back to school with Mrs McClusky, Mr Bronson et al at

Grange Hill

[H]

and then back to school with Mrs McClusky, Mr Bronson et al at

Grange Hill

A mistake TV reference move - that allows me to timetravel and get to New Cross Gate by tube to capture all of the London Overground as well as the new skyway. And I claim timelord logic rules dispensation protection to prevent any backtracking.

H.

[edwin_m]

Diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum WO-HOOOOO

Am I the only one that thinks the Doctor Who title sequence was inspired by the Tube? 

Avoiding step-free stations because of the danger of Daleks, I travel back in time to Down Street.

[REGP]

If we are going down that line I'll have to go to Walford East

Ray

[Mustermark]

Then Gillespie Rd as it was when opened in 1906.

Renamed as Arsenal in 1932.

[longbridge]

Crikey this looks like fun if I knew what you were doing but hey does Roma Street Station Brisbane mean anything 

[Mustermark]

Blimey Dave, that's a bold move opening up the antipodean axis. But i think it is a legal move while we are in time travel mode.  In an earlier game we left the London Transport system for Paris, so Brizzy is fair game.

I shall take us a couple of stops south at Brisbane and link back to familiar Thames geography - and Melvin Bragg - and go to South Bank station.

Diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum diddley-dum WO-HOOOOO

Am I the only one that thinks the Doctor Who title sequence was inspired by the Tube? 

Avoiding step-free stations because of the danger of Daleks, I travel back in time to Down Street.

The original Dr Who title music was written for orchestra by Ron Grainer. The score was given to Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001) who recorded the electronic version at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale, in 1963.  Ron Grainer was so impressed with the result that he wrote to the performing arts organization to ask that she be added to the writing credits for the music.  They refused. The track "Doctor?" by Orbital, who recreated the Derbyshire version and added a Breakbeat drum track (creating one of my all time favourite tracks), shows the composition credit on their CD to Ron Grainer and there is no mention of Delia. Delia Derbyshire is hereby awarded the Rosalind Franklin award for unrecognized musical achievement.

My wife wishes it to be pointed out that Daleks were, in a 2005 David Tenant series, equipped with rocket motors enabling them to traverse vertical perambulatory interchanges, and thus have the ability to overcome stairs.

[Pengi]

Fortitude Valley

[H]

I know you have to go 'down stairs' and underground to get on the 'tube' but its not quite 'down under'. Dropping right through the earth to play on its backside is plainly breaking the 'rules'. Therefore, I just walk down the road from 'New Cross Gate' and claim 'Lewisham' on the DLR. Driverless trains - that should get it back on track and put me in the driving seat.

H.