Mornington Crescent - Return Ticket

Baptist Trainfan

Marylebone (do I get £200 for that?)

Wet Kipper

Great Portland Street

Net Spinster

Greenford (I think Baptist Trainfan get 150 plus a white counter)

Baptist Trainfan

(There are no white counters in Monopoly). Buckhurst Hill.

Sipech

Assuming the line didn't buckle and we can avoid overhead power cable damage too, I suggest beating a hasty retreat to Pontoon Dock.

Net Spinster

and on to Fenchurch Street (so we are playing the 1935 rules)

Baptist Trainfan

Steam trains then! King's Cross (York Road Platform).

la vie en rouge

Yippee!! Mornin…. Oh bugger you’ve cross-triangulated the Northern Line. You sneaky fox.

Piccadilly Circus and no cigar.

Sipech

Bayswater

Baptist Trainfan

Paddington (Praed Street).

Net Spinster

I think I'll do Moorgate which with BT's move should stop Sipech's slither.

Baptist Trainfan

Drayton Park, then ...

Net Spinster

Given a recent epiphany, Blackhorse Road

Wet Kipper

Fairlop

Sipech

That's a very high vowel/consonant ratio for a Tuesday. Rules out using the District line in the next two moves. So.........Great Portland Street.

Wet Kipper

dagnabbit - I hadn't considered that.
Oh well, never mind. What's done is done

Pimlico

BroJames

Let’s rebalance vowels and consonants. Only three vowels, and only two sounded

Knightsbridge

Net Spinster

Chalk Farm Don't forget the Wednesday subrule

balaam

The subrule that on a Wednesday in August, the DLR scores double? East India.


(ETA, that was supposed to be bold, not italic.)

Net Spinster

Cutty Sark in bold not italic

Baptist Trainfan

Having travelled through aforesaid station (for Maritime Greenwich) just yesterday, I feel obligated to alight where we did: Mudchute.

Sipech

Ah, just the wrong side of the river from me. Let's traverse over to nicer-sounding Earlsfield.

Wet Kipper

keeping up appearances, on to Barons Court

Baptist Trainfan

You once could do better than that: Lord's.

Wet Kipper

Knightsbridge

Baptist Trainfan

Queensbury.

Net Spinster

Kingsbury

Baptist Trainfan

They're dead. So: Monument.

BroJames

Bank and no, you can’t walk. You must use the tube.

Baptist Trainfan

So ... Circle Line to Embankment, Bakerloo Line to Elephant, thence Northern Line (City Branch) to Bank.

Or Circle Line to Embankment, Northern Line (Charing Cross Branch) to Euston, thence Northern Line (City Branch) to Bank. (Other routes are available).

But why get out at Euston? You could go just a little bit further and alight at Mornington Camden Town.

Wet Kipper

Hounslow West

Piglet

Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 and 3

Net Spinster

Victoria is the obvious move here

Baptist Trainfan

And so to Queensway.

Sipech

After a delayed start to a Test Match, it is only natural to spend a little time milling around Mill Hill East.

Baptist Trainfan

But of course. Or even - to be historical (which, of course, cricket is): Mill Hill (The Hale) Halt - a mere few yards from my childhood home,

Net Spinster

I fear I must play Camden Town and cite the Nesbit amulet

Piglet

I think I've got the wrong rule-book*, but I'm going to play Liverpool Street anyway.

* It says "Do not pass GO. Do not collect £200".

Baptist Trainfan

But that lands on a Double Letter Score, and we can't be having that on a Sunday.

Anyway, seeing that the Circle Line is running a reduced service due to engineering work, we'd better stick to the Overground and go to Gidea Park.

alienfromzog

ahh well...

Mornington Crescent

Piglet

Oh well done, AFZ!

Would you care to start the next round*?

* Mine's a GIN and tonic ...

Net Spinster

Arnold Palmer for me 🕷️

Net Spinster

New flash! the police have found the bones of the last party playing Mornington Crescent at King William Street.

Baptist Trainfan

Further evidence was exhumed at South Kentish Town.

Piglet

If we're talking about interesting remains, Leicester

Baptist Trainfan

Yes, but it has to be Belgrave Road station.

Wet Kipper

Well, we have to get rid of all the excavated earth somewhere
Mudchute

Piglet

While we're on the Docklands Railway, Canary Wharf

Wet Kipper

Goldhawk Road

Baptist Trainfan

Wet Kipper wrote: »

Well, we have to get rid of all the excavated earth somewhere
Mudchute

[Did you know that the hill in the middle of Battersea Park is basically the Metropolitan Line between Paddington and Farringdon?]

Blake Hall.