we'll be using the 1927 South Western Alliance Rules, with the later subset of the Kronski variations.

Diagonals are Wild, aces are worth 7 and no trumps.

I'll start, with... hmm.... South Ealing.

erm....Finchley Central?

Aha,
 
Barking  
 
3 points to me I think.

I'll double your Barking with Exter St. Davids 'en passant', leaving you vulnerable and with isolated signals.

Whut? 

 I'm sorry, but under Anderson's Rules of Contract, Whut can only be played on the 21st of July if playing the Scottish Rules.

Hmmm, I can see I'll have to play more defensively.

Since we are playing by the 1927 rules I'll go Brompton Road and miss a turn.

Quote - I'll double your Barking with Exter St. Davids 'en passant', leaving you vulnerable and with isolated signals.

Nice try, but you can't get away with a "Trip to Devon" gambit in this game, so go directly to Brixton without collecting Elephant & Castle and miss a turn, then wait until you roll a 6 or you a draw joker.

Cockfosters.

Quote -  I'm sorry, but under Anderson's Rules of Contract, Whut can only be played on the 21st of July if playing the Scottish Rules.

Ok, I'll try again...

What the fuck are you on about? :)

It's quite simple Sam. The first one to Mornington Cresent wins.

But you have to play by the rules.

 the Great Game Sam...... Mornington Cresent.. I'm sure you'll pick up the rules as we go...

oh Cockfosters eh?

have to go with Tottenham Court Road on that.. 

I start filling out the forms to call in a vogon contructor fleet to build a hyperspace bypass.

Can you do South Ealing to Tottenham Court Road in one move?
 
I was always told you had to do Ealing Broadway and then set back.

 you change at Holborn then back 1 stop to TCR, the old Miser Flipflop

Looks like  straight jackets and padded walls are in order.  Weird Poser session.

Ahh Holborn and then Tottenham Court Road, leaving you inside the circle line and well poised for your next move. That's very clever, I must remember that.

Oh and I'll draw two cards and go to Warren Street

Quote - What the fuck are you on about? :)

Why use seven words to ask when you could Google it with two ?
And why should we miss out on being able to spring a Woolwich Arsenal on a novice.

Quote - Oh and I'll draw two cards and go to Warren Street

I'll take a risk on a getting penalty corner and slide into Barbican.

Are we allowed to Huff, unless we are in Nip?

Quote - > Quote - What the fuck are you on about? :)

Why use seven words to ask when you could Google it with two ?
  

Because I - rather foolishly, perhaps - expected a straight answer to a direct question.  :P

Since vogon constructor fleets are allowed under the current rule set (they weren't banned until after the kinginston debacle of 1999 when the destination was obliterated 5 times resulting in a 12 hour game that ended in a draw because no one could get there), I start filling out the duplicate forms.

 we will have to ask you to name a station... since that is the game...

i'm too busy flinging myself at the ground to care

Piccadilly Circus and heading for Soho. I may be there for two or three turns while the deck is shuffled.

Red card for a clear violation of the anti Napolen gamit, outlawed in 1984 after the George Orwell debacle.  Go back to Tooting Bec and rejoing one stop down.

Hmmmm.... Cockfosters

aha........High Barnet.......victory is nigh

Oh no!  Osterly, must have been snoozing

This is risky, but due to engineering works I'll go for Dagenham Heathway.

Since there is no adjudication on Huffing, I will chose the long diagonal to Green Park

Quote - Since there is no adjudication on Huffing, I will chose the long diagonal to Green Park

Surely covered by The Marquess of Huffington rules of 1938!

Before anyone cites the off-side rule I'm taking a break at Tower Gateway

 Tower Gateway? you evil sod...

that only leaves me Dollis Hill...

Quote -  Tower Gateway? you evil sod...

that only leaves me Dollis Hill...

hehe, mind you don't slip into Willesden

I'm gonna be wild and take an overground move, Kensington (Olympia). So there!  :p

Paul, if you insert HGTTG's 42,  things will become significantly clearer on the game rules and play.

Jan 

Ok I'm playing the Anticlockwise rule, written into the British Transport Repairworks Revision of September 1968.  In place for a further 4 turns, back to Dollis Hill for me.

I will Fitzroy finesse to Angel

Quote - I will Fitzroy finesse to Angel

Wel if you're gonna play like that, I'm taking a Fosbury flop to Bank

Quote - Paul, if you insert HGTTG's 42,  things will become significantly clearer on the game rules and play.

Jan 

S'alright, mate.  I'm au fait with the rules now.

I am, however, stuck in Nidd.

doing the Dollis Hill loop again...

I think I can see the way out tho...

 Ran some simulations on the ol' calculator (we're not running ludite variation, are we?) and game theory pretty much decided for me : I'll be looping all over King's Cross waiting for the best contract (And then I'll overbid, but we'll see to that when you guys finish the current round).

Made it to Doncaster.

I'm waaay off but I'll get the 125 from Sheffield to King's x from there.  

Back to reality, I am going wide for Googe Street.

And all this time I thought Mornington Crescent was a steampunk band...;)

Ok, is there a Waterloo station? I've only been on one of the Kensington Stations...nigh on 20 years ago. 

Is there a Waterloo indeed! Flagrant use of the same blind Napoleon gambit I got the red card for!
Objection, referee! I demand a recount.

If we accept Waterloo as legitimate.

I'll propose moving along Bakerloo to Ongar via an enigma variation.

(This game would be much easier to follow with Samantha showing her tips on the laser display board.)

 Still in the Dollis Hill loop

I'm going to attempt a slide to Holborn using Stuttertons Gambit, soon as the requisite stations are played...

well, I was last there in '91, and all I can remember was the Kensington (there's 2...or there were), and another stop that puts you at the base of Big Ben.

In the US, often street names and neighborhoods are named for these, so they're all over the place.

Already at Holborn.  I used Farthingale's Reverse Double Counter Broadside Maneouvre.

I'm prepared to accept Ruddington's Single Penury for the perceived unfair advantage, though.

If I understand the rules correctly (take pity on a Mornington Crescent n00b!)... Tottenham Court Road.

And once we're done with this, anyone want to play Fizzbin? It's really quite a simple game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlK-Usd1tBM&feature=related 

Quote - If I understand the rules correctly (take pity on a Mornington Crescent n00b!)... Tottenham Court Road.

That's certainly the recommended beginners opening move, difficult to say how appropriate it is in a game that's well underway (only time will tell).

Euston.

If nobody hurries along, I'll invoke Heliotrope's Censure for delay of game.