Here’s what a group of twenty people look like having completed the Tube Challenge and visited all 270 stations in one day for the charity event Walk The Tube.

We started on the 05.15 out of Chesham, and completed 18 hours, 13 minutes and 29 seconds later.

We made a slight cheat in that we used the Overground to visit Kensington Olympia, because it’s hard enough scheduling that in on a regular challenge – getting it to work for a mass-group was never going to happen, but it was good enough for us!

Anyone fancy another one next year?

At the finish, at Heathrow Terminal 5

Hello! Today, we’re very much involved in a charity ‘All 270 Stations’ around the tube network attempt, it’s called Walk The Tube, because none of the connections between the stations or lines will involve running – it will all be walked.

Walk the tube

There will be no attempt at setting a new record time, instead it’s a way to get a large group of people (20 of us) around the network just so that they can all say that they’ve been to all the stations on the network!

We are tweeting using the #walkthetube hashtag today and look out for us on your travels too!  We started this morning at Chesham at 5am, and should finish at Heathrow tonight at around 11pm.

With the last few C-Stock trains left on the network, you can now buy tickets on the LTMuseum website for one of two ‘send off’ events to say farewell to these trains.

The first event is on Sunday 13th April, and will travel on parts of the network that it doesn’t usually go along – including parts of the Metropolitan and Piccadilly Line.  More details and how to book are over here on the LTMuseum Site.

C-Stock explorer

There is also then rumour of another event taking place later on in the year on the 29th June, where the last ever C-Stock will run over lines long associated with this type of train – from Hammersmith, to Moorgate, Wimbledon and Barking.

We suspect there are two tours because of the limited numbers of seats available on a C-Stock train, and they don’t want anyone standing – seated passengers only – on these tours.