Mornington Crescent rides again

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

To nobody’s surprise, the frantic pace of this latest game means that the last thread is full and (as far as I can see) <polishes lorgnette> we don’t yet have a successor. So, off we go with a Brunswick Lateral to

Russell Square

Re Stockwell - I think you may have shunted so in order to avoid causing an Erdington...

Green Park

I'm inspired West Hampstead

Has anyone taken the Double Shuffle to Turnham Green yet?

Some very inspired play from our new players, if you are new players. Something about these recent moves puts me in mind of the semi-finals in Perpignan in ‘89, when the ‘novice’ player who triumphed with a daring reverse to Kings Cross was unmasked as the Rear Admiral’s dissolute brother, playing in contravention of a lifetime ban. But I digress:

Rickmansworth

Which, using the Baldwin exepmtion of the Westbound Central line should allow me to biaxelate into...

Liverpool Street

The Elizabeth line rule can now be used and get us to Whitechapel.

The Rear Admiral would be proud of me Ickenham !!

The Rear Admiral has much to be proud of, if we disregard that regrettable business in Dieppe in 2021.

Wanstead Park

Ahhh, The Rear-Admiral...I have kept my counsel for many years and will continue to do so until the statute of limitations ceases to apply. Then,^^ wait for the memoirs, they'll be fun!

Oval.

Yes, TragicMuse, I’m aware that you and the Rear Admiral have a (cough) lively (ahem) acquaintance going back very many years.

Balham

I’m very much looking forward to your memoirs, Tragic. I want to know what really happened in the infamous incident with the carp pond. Although I’m confident that the story about the helter skelter at Weston-super-Mare is just a malicious rumour.

Clapham Junction

The London Overground rule to the rescue again, first time I think I have used it for two of my moves in a row. Not sure it was part of the 2014 tournament.

Willesden Junction.

I seem to recall the whole business was detailed in Total Carp magazine.

Turnpike Lane

It’s widely suspected that Total Carp magazine is a front for the renegade faction of MC players who have never accepted the 1996 Addendum to the Compendium of Rules, Consolidated and Updated and so staged the carp pond incident as a distraction.

Battersea Power Station

Yes, there were a few who wouldn’t stop carping about it.

Culshaw’s Loop to Goodge Street

Heavens above Culshaws Loop! Whatever next?
Great Portland Street

I assume that’s permitted because we are Carolean but pre coronation?

No matter.

Barbican

Gosh, the rules are being tested tonight. In this climate of anything goes, I shall attempt a treble reverse shunt to

Russell Square

I find post-brexit MC an adventure so using the Lord Stanley Johnson exemption of the international stations we land at
Caledonian Road

Hmm this is tough but I'm thinking Bounds Green

Which prompts me to sashay over to

Green Park

I think a move to Gloucester Road next. I was becoming concerned at one point yesterday that some of the rules first played in the 1960s were not being used, glad to see they have come back. All we now need is an appearance from the Major- any idea where he is?

The Major is probably here somewhere completely incognito (looks suspiciously around)
Channeling my inner BC here Northwood

The last I heard, the Major was in an hotel in Eastbourne (having had to leave Weston-super-Mare because of that unfortunate episode) and was entertaining the dowagers with tales of his prowess in the game of games.

Notting Hill Gate

I couldn’t possibly comment.

Ladbroke Grove