Time for a new game of Mornington Crescent

[peak2021]

It's time to begin a new game and I better not make the mistake of playing the closed stations rule in zone 1 again, which led to the win by @WalkingInTheAir13. To have a winner after only three and a half months is quite rare this century.

So I shall begin outside zone 1 for once, starting at Tooting Broadway, the first game I have ever joined to start south of the river.

I think it is time for a short move and therefore Dagenham East. Welcome to the game of games @MrsWP

@MrsWP are you sure this is your first go?
That was a very good move.

I think it's fairly obvious that my next move should be Mile End

And for this shouting that this contravenes the Third Edinburgh Agreement. I ask you, kindly, to carefully take a look at the time this move was played and you'll find everything is above board.

Yes I wondered that about @MrsWP and her 'first move'.

Well as things have just got interesting I'm going to play Paddington.

As tonight we change to BST so it will be allowed.

Oh I see what you're doing, very clever! But I'm going to take a leaf out of Barber and Whittock's book (for those who recall them) and go for Barbican. Sorry to foil your plans!

The Thameslink rule is a great help here and gets me to Elephant and Castle.

Such basic moves at this point in the game? Bold. Brave.

However, a Reverse Triple Shunt to Gunnersbury

Ok. So a definitive lateral. Nice.

Oval

Oval again? I feel we’re going round in circles, or possibly ovals.

To liven things up, I’m making a transverse gravitation to Richmond.

Can you play a transverse graviation during Lent? I forget the precise rule that allows this, but I'll take your word for it.

I will take a risk here, and play a diagonal end flip to Epping.

@DuckonaBike

Oval again? I feel we’re going round in circles, or possibly ovals.

To liven things up, I’m making a transverse gravitation to Richmond.

You might want to rethink that. If I recall the Rushton v Brooke-Taylor contretemps of 1972 correctly, a move of that kind on the night we change to BST, unless followed up extremely carefully, risks throwing the entire party into Nidd.

And we wouldn’t want that, would we?

Oops.

Oops, that should of course say gravitation. A transverse graviation would be strictly forbidden at any time, and rightly so!

A switch to South Ealing

Another newbie but if I have understood correctly - provided the move is made while it is still GMT - I can double the earlier reverse triple shunt, and so get to

Warren Street

.... Curses! You've made my next planned move to Chalk Farm quite impossible.

I shall counter that with the Grunning's Fourth to Brent Cross

Sorry my last move turned out to be so risky. I certainly wouldn’t want to send anyone to Nidd. But sometimes I like to live on the edge.

A quick grande battement to Brondesbury Park

Great Uncle Reginald sadly died of a surfeit and left me his library of the International Proceedings covering all the conferences and agreements. It is heavy going but I believe that a grande battlement should be followed by a pas de chat to

Canary Wharf

It’s OK. Whether by luck or judgment, Nidd was avoided. A shame that WonkyCactus and Binary weren’t there to rescue the game in 1972.

So, anyway... I think Mansion House.

Mansion house? Hmmm.

A quick trot to Temple I think.

I’m going with a controversial- its not the Sunday rule of 1973, to Marylebone

Oops, Marylebone

Marylebone? After Temple? On a Saturday in Lent?

Madness.

You've just invoked End of Line Rules... Did you realise?
Guessing not.

Morden

I wonder if it’s the full moon that’s leading to so many daring moves?

Swiss Cottage. So there.

Wow. Corker of a game here. I'm going to be bold too and use the "Jerry Springer" move with East Finchley. Don't judge me.

Let's try Southfields