No blocking back outside or running the diagonals, apart from that, usual rules.

Opening gambit.

Bakerloo

Pimlico..

Awimbaway awimbaway awimbaway.

Hmmm

Green Park

Can I start at Victoria using Stovolds or is that too close to CFH at Pimlico? Sorry, not played for ages.

I think that’s offside.

Really? Bugger.
Tooting Beck then.

I think that’s offside.

Only at peak times. It’s 7:30pm so it’s perfectly valid.

Which leads me to… Elephant & Castle.

Bank.

Incidentally, rules clarification question for the OP: are we playing allowing 1-day Travelcards?

Travel cards are allowed but no OAP discount.

Waterloo.

Makes sense, thank you.

I’m going to play my Scottish Executive Package and go directly to Blackfriars.

1980’s revisions? Is that pre-Helsinki summit or post?

If pre then I need a set of the rules for a quick looksee to check the ruling on executive packages….(I’m a bit rusty 😳)

If post I’m doing Brixton & going saarrrfff of the river! Cowboy country 🤠!

Vauxhall.

Hang on a minute! So I could have had Victoria then?

Cockfosters

I think you probably could – I’ve a letter here from Mrs Trellis (N Wales..) & she pointed out the same thing..

I’m brushing fearfully close to Nidd here, but I’m going for it, nothing ventured nothing gained…

Tufnell Park

Oooh, bold move.

Euston. Putting CFH in Knipp I believe.

Tufnell to Dulwich with frozen points at Chalfonts.

Sorry Cougar, didn’t mean to jump the gun there but the lateral still works.

Vauxhall?
Euston?
& Tufnell Park?!
By God you’re a tough crowd….I tip my hat to you all…

F it – I’ve no choice….Luton High Street & pray the Ruislip Cloverleaf isn’t blocked with traffic……(I’m looking to boomerang back once you lot have got yourselves fouled up on the Hackney overpass…..😁)

I hate you all.

Thanks Mrlebrowski but it’s a bit late now! I could have gone to Leicester Square from there.
So, if I have to use Tooting, as everyone apart from the one person who has actually read the rules appears to have assumed I have done, then Earls Court. Not ideal but the best of a bad job

[EDIT] FFS! Too slow. Right, if you’ve gone to Luton, I’ll have to go to Edgeware.
And no sympathy for you CFH, it was you who caused this problem in the first place.

Mornington Cr……. oh….. hang on

I was thinking the 1978 revision – forgot that the 1980 revision disallowed any move based on the Banach-Tarski theorem.

Dammit. Dagenham Heathway it is then. Sorry everyone.

Frozen Chalfonts? Oof!

Finchley Road and Frognal

Penge!? I’m in fing PENGE! Oh Christ, that’s game over man…..game over!

How did I end up in Penge??? 😭😤

Since no-one has played Chorleywood yet I believe I can invoke my rights under Article 4 of the Slough Agreement (1974, unabridged) to play Perivale.

Pfft. You’ve all overlooked the legendary move from Farnsingworth vs Hesterscue, 1963.

Upminster

Still waiting…

(Psst, spoiler CFH, diagonals are blocked as per the OP…)

Don’t look at me – I’m in Penge, I might as well be in Nidd!

Tooting Broadway.

Curses! Can’t believe I missed such an obvious move. Still, it would have pretty much taken the game, so at least now you lot still have a chance!

Hoxton.

@grahamh – that’s very brave of you.

Luckily, knowing your a bold fellow, I planned for this sort of situation.

Angel.

That’s either really, really clever or a schoolboy error. Still, I’ll bite, it’ll open up the game a bit if nothing else.

Euston.

@cougar really? At this stage? I hadn’t realised we were doubling on major interchanges. Hmm. If that’s the stakes we’re playing for I’m afraid I’ll go straight, miss one stop then hang to Tower Hill.

@mrlebowski if I might be so bold as to suggest the Penge Pinner Ruislip gambit. I know diagonals are blocked but most conventions would class that move as obliquely asymptotic.

@honeybadgerx Well, that answers my quandary.

This could turn out to be an interesting game.