The Tube Challenge is the competition for the fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations, tracked as a Guinness World Record since 1960. The goal is to visit all the stations on the system, not necessarily all the lines; participants may connect between stations on foot, or by using other forms of public transport.
As of May 2024[update], the record for fastest completion (272 stations) is held by Arthur Philipps, Ruairí O'Grady, John Mawdsley, Alex Rennie, Tim Livant, Joseph Solomon, Alex Sinclair, Yipeng Xu who completed the challenge in 18 hours, 8 minutes and 13 seconds on 23 October 2023.[1]
A similar unofficial tube-related challenge is also completed where participants try and ride all 14 London Underground lines as quickly as possible. This challenge was dubbed: "The All Lines challenge".[2][3]
- ^ "Fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations". Guinness World Records.
18 hr 08 min 13 sec, and was achieved by Arthur Philipps, Ruairí O'Grady, John Mawdsley, Alex Rennie, Tim Livant, Joseph Solomon, Alex Sinclair, Yipeng Xu (UK and Ireland) in London, UK, on 23 October 2023.
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- ^ "Top Times: All Lines". www.explorerticket.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2024.