A little Mornington Crescent - anyone care to join in?

[OverAndAbove]

I just fancy a change of focus.

I'll jump right in with Great Portland Street - I think I'm entitled to do that, with it being beyond the autumn equinox, but before Halloween?

Any takers?

Obviously the only option after Marylebone is

Belsize Park

It's sounds like Green Eco system is running. So Green Park

Belsize Park has already been played in this round, and the deep loop has not yet completed.

Ah but it could be a reverse anti cyclone working in a pincer movement with the burgeoning Green Park Eco system. In which case West Ruislip is the only sensible destination.

Finchley Road then. Before anyone jumps in with the 1555 codicil, let me remind you it's a Saturday.

I would argue that Finchley Road is only a valid move Monday to Friday with it being an Ashes year and all. But maybe the 1555 codicil outweighs that.
I'm going to make a very convoluted move and offer up- Temple.

I am in a different time zone (Far East) and we made an amendment to the 1555 codicil, valid for 5 years from 2009, so I am going straight to Euston, thank you.

Hmm. Tricky. I'll essay

Mansion House

Really, Maude? I would have suggested anywhere BUT Mansion House, tbh...but it's your call.
Nearly bedtime here, so I will invoke the Somnolence Charter and make my way to Elephant and Castle.

Mansion House would take me to Covent Garden, so I have to double back and say, Bank.

That gets me back to the deep loop.

this is not a move, but a question. Do we have any Suffolk players who can tell me if London Underground Ipswich is still open? I don't want people to think it is a bluff

Ooh, you've started a new game - excellent. I have been using the intervening time to study the Rutherford Directive (DLR Revisions), leading me to suggest a Klein Shift out of the Deep Loop and over to Canning Town.

Some rather fine play here. Following the deep loop round I'll go for Canary Wharf. Avoiding Ipswich for the time being.

Bank - avoiding the possibility of a positional extension gambit which would be disasterous.

May I remind you about the ammendments agreed after much controversy at the Durham conference of '78 after the introduction of the Tyneside metro with a cheeky ..... West Monkseaton?

Oh, masterful play Ardliath, how very slick! I'll add Haymarket then

::northerner born and bred::

I strike out to Wanstead, since Redbridge is so shallow and Leytonstone is surface. I still intend to complete the Deep later.

A smart move! I had considered Newcastle Airport but have just remembered that Nov 5th is on a Tuesday so will have to go with South Gosforth. Have'nt examined all the options but I think I may have avoided being 'in nip'

Speaking as a long-term purist, i have great difficulty in accepting any stations north of Watford Junction. There are still arguments about the Southend Pier halts since they do not have a continuous link with the other network.

I believe that some of the provincial railways don't even have tunnels, and are little more than trams.

And obviously, are not found on any page of the 1954 A to Z.

I refer you to the Utrecht Directives of 1938 - St Michael's Hamlet. we are many. they are few. I say no more.

In 1938 it was well-understood by all right-thinking people (the sort of chaps who played Crescent) that nothing of any consequence existed outside the metropolis and its environs. Only a few picturesque villages in the West, and some waterside industrial places somewhere in the North.

How useful to be reminded of the Utrecht Directives - such a modernising influence on the game. With those in mind

Vauxhall

Pimlico

DD is assisting me again and referring me to the under-18s Revision and Compendium. She suggests

St Pancras International