Welcome to the Tube Challenge League Tables website here on Explorer Ticket.
This site was setup to inform and record the details of the various "alternative Tube challenges" that can be attempted on London's railway network.
You may have heard about the Tube Challenge whereby people attempt to visit all 270 London Underground stations in the fastest time (and possibly gain a Guinness World Record in the process). Therefore an "alternative tube challenge" is just a scaled down version of the full Tube Challenge concentrating on just one network or a smaller area, thus many of the alternative challenges listed below are of much shorter duration, making them ideal for an afternoon or weekend (when the full Tube Challenge cannot be completed), bring your friends along too. A list of the current challenges that may be attempted is shown below.
The aim of this challenge is to visit a London Underground station beginning with every letter of the alphabet (except J, X, Y and Z. There are no LU stations beginning with these letters). The stations you choose must be visited in strict alphabet order, so depart a station beginning with A, visit one beginning with B, visit one beginning with C and so on. Stations passed through in between do not count for other letters, therefore if your "B" station is Bank and "C" is Chancery Lane you cannot count St. Paul's as "S" in between.
Click to view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 04:49:16 by Leon Gunasekara and Aidan Gill.
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The aim of this challenge is to travel between at least two stations on ALL eleven London Underground lines. Beware that where two or more lines share the same stretch of track you must travel on the trains of ALL the lines involved for them all to be valid. A trip between Euston Square and King's Cross only counts for the line your train is described as (say a Circle) it does not mean you have done the Circle, H&C and Met together!
Click to view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 00:33:37 by Matthew Scrivin and Steven Karahan.
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A great new mini challenge, visit all 7 Acton stations that feature on the Tube Map.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 00:33:21 by Chris Lewis and Adam Cady.
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The aim is to visit all 50 London Underground stations that lie on or within the "classic" Circle Line on a standard Tube Map. Please note that despite being OUTSIDE the Circle line on the current version of the Tube map, the stations of Marylebone and Edgware Road (Bakerloo) are included within this challenge. Paddington (H&C) and all stations west thereof down to Hammersmith do NOT need to be visited on this challenge.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 01:52:55 by John Stark.
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The aim of this challenge is to simply visit all 39 stations on the Croydon Tramlink system.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 01:35:15 by Josh Ageros.
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all stations on the current DLR system.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 01:53:53 by Hugo Marrow.
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To visit all stations on the current London Overground network. This challenge DOES include Battersea Park despite not being shown on the Tube Map, also note that special Oyster fares apply at Watford Junction.
This record has been reset with the recent addition of Barking Riverside.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 10:17:45 by Damir McElfresh
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all 33 London Underground stations that make up "The Mouse." The Mouse is all stations on and within both Central London branches of the Northern line between Camden Town and Kennington.
NOTE: Newer editions of the Tube Map show Euston Square as outside of "The Mouse" but Euston Square is included within this challenge (as it is inside the Northern line) and that whilst Bank obviously needs to be visited, Monument does not as it lies outside of the Northern line.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 01:22:10 by Hugo Marrow.
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The aim is to visit all 24 London Underground stations that have the word "Park" in the name... but there is a twist. As well as visiting each station you must take an exterior photo of the station clearly showing the station name (from the street/exiting the ticket barriers) before carrying on to the next station. This challenge is traditionally attempted in December around Christmas time.
Click to view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 07:16:21 by Hugo Marrow.
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all 32 London Underground stations that have the word North, East, South or West contained in their name as a separate word.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 06:30:23 by David Edwards.
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The Random 15 challenge differs from all the other alternative challenges as there is not a pre determined fixed set of stations to visit. The Random 15 challenge consists of visiting 15 randomly generated stations (from the London Underground Tube Map) selected using certain criteria before the challenge commences. To avoid being sent all over the system, stations drawn are generally kept within Zones 1 and 2 (except during certain twist rounds). As the stations for this challenge are produced at random, the time taken to visit all 15 stations on the list can, of course, vary depending on the stations drawn out. This challenge is very good for weekends when engineering works are taking place, as you can dodge around them!
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 01:42:52 by Andi James and Andrew Baker.
Click for the current season points scoring league table.
The next round will be held on 01st June 2024, contact the webmaster for further details.
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all 28 London Underground stations that have the word Road, Street, Lane or Avenue in their name...however the finishing station is always Mornington Crescent.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 03:46:16 by Jenny Sherman.
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A new addition to the alternative challenges is the royal challenge. The aim is to visit all 19 Underground, Overground, Crossrail and DLR stations that contains the word Royal or references to royalty (king, queen, prince).
This record has been reset with the recent additions of Seven Kings and Barking Riverside.
**Be the first to a set time for others to beat!**
Click to view the leaderboard Top times. The record before the reset was 04:49:41 by Hugo Marrow.
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all London Underground, London Overground (including Battersea Park), Crossrail and DLR stations that lie south of the River Thames, plus all stations on the Croydon Tramlink network and the Emirates AirLine.
This record has been reset with the addition of the Crossrail stations at Woolwich and Abbey Wood plus the Battersea extension of the Northern line.
Click to view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 08:38:50 by Vincent Karthaus
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The aim of this challenge is to visit all 33 London Underground stations that lie south of the River Thames.
This record has recently been reset with the addition of the Battersea Power Station extension of the Northern line.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 02:04:34 by Tim Gray
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One of the more popular of the alternative challenges is the Zone 1 whereby challengers compete to visit all 67 London Underground stations that are within Oyster card zone 1.
This record has recently been reset with the addition of the Battersea Power Station extension of the Northern line, adding 3 extra stations to Zone 1.
Click for the Rules or view the leaderboard Top Times. Current record is 02:57:53 by Clive Burgess.
For the previous 64/65 station leaderboard (pre Battersea), this can be found here.
Our annual competitive Zone 1 Challenge Cup event will be held on Friday 31st May 2024. Please visit the dedicated Zone 1 Challenge Cuppage for further details.
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A spin off from the above. The idea is to visit all London Underground stations that lie within Oyster card zone 1 plus all those within zone 2 as well!
This record has recently been reset with the addition of the Battersea Power Station extension of the Northern line.
**Be the first to set a new time for others to beat!**
Click to view the leaderboard Top Times. The record before the reset was 07:13:45 by David Edwards
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