KevinWalsh Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Where a simple Hop, Skip and Jump brings us to POPLAR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike at C&M Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I invoke the Viennese Waltz step, as devised by the brothers Johann and Andrew Strauss, for a day at the MCC, using St.John's Wood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 Nowadays it's more popular to use Andre Rieu's version of the waltz taking us to: Enfield West in the halycon days before the hoi-polloi chavs got it renamed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Where the Beck's is Enfield West!? Dear me these musical interludes are a distraction! Back with a serious ploy. A Luxembourg Shift aiming to establish a Quadrant: Carpenders Park Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 11, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 11, 2013 (Not sure if you're jesting Adams442T or genuinely don't know but there are presumably viewers and listeners who don't - Cockfosters was originally Enfield West for a short time ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Ah! I thought it was called Trent Park. Well perhaps we should extend this round to include Abandoned Stations & Names, so how about British Museum Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Ah! I thought it was called Trent Park. ..... ...bringing us back to Oakwood Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2013 Oh thank you kind sir, Applying Robinson's Third Caveat this leaves me wide open to arrive at :- Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 (Not sure if you're jesting Adams442T or genuinely don't know but there are presumably viewers and listeners who don't - Cockfosters was originally Enfield West for a short time ) Oh no it wasn't. That was Oakwood! Slapped wrist! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2013 To start a new game, keeping it simple with standard Stovold 's third revision and diagonals are wild:- Tooting Bec (Not at all sure why the blue underline highlighted 'Stovold' , er Samantha ?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 Oh no it wasn't. That was Oakwood! Slapped wrist! Ooops you're quite right. Was at the Sanatogen a bit early last night! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Nice one Brit! OK. Tooting Bec.....................er diagonals are wild eh. Then: Hanger Lane Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 Funnily enough I was at Hanger Lane this week, so applying the walking convention (which I did 'on the ground' quite literally) it's a short step to Park Royal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 12, 2013 Author Share Posted January 12, 2013 Which puts you in knip! Overuse of a non-reversed straddle on an adjacent interchangeable line. I declare a token inversion to Dollis Hill. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Applying Liggets's Formula means I can take the game to Leytonstone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 Trust Horsetan to quote some legal precedent! Well on that basis using equitable estoppel as a shield (and not a sword of course) Leyton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adams442T Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Cunning ploy! Leaves little room for movement except to try Stovold's Old Peculiar and bring us to: Finchley Road Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 12, 2013 Share Posted January 12, 2013 Damnit! Landed on a snake, and am now in Stockwell throw a six in order to move Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2013 Well normally, the way out would have been a loop to Tottenham Court Road, but many sixes will be thrown before work is complete there, so : Trafalger Square Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 12, 2013 Before war breaks out when Samantha remonstrates about TrafalgAr Square we'd better use the Treaty of Bad Wurtemburg move to take us to Waterloo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 45156 Posted January 12, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12, 2013 Oh my - that's cunning and there's only one way out of it abd that's a Northern shunt to Camden Town (bypassing M******** C*******) on the way Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 You've put us back in spoon! Only small number of alternative moves, best of which I think is Heathrow Terminal 1,2,3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 13, 2013 Author Share Posted January 13, 2013 Quite restricted so I can only quarter strile to Bermondsey (where Humph is doing a bounce). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Brit70053 Posted January 13, 2013 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13, 2013 Obliging a Nichol leap (Masters' second revision 1873) on to the Circle and :- Bromley By Bow But Samantha, it was only one vowel - ooouch ! (#94 & 95) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 ...wfich by using Throckmortons standard rule of left hand-down-a-bit drops us neatly into East Putney Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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