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  • Walking the TfL map – Out west

    A very soggy end to a walk on the west of the map

    Photos

    Today’s walk

    Heading to Uxbridge, and then along the canal to to Elizabeth line

    Where I’ve walked so far

    Filling out more of the western side of the map

  • Walking the TfL map – Finsbury Park to Elephant & Castle

    Cleaning up some of the Thameslink.

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    Today’s walk

    From Finsbury Park down to Elephant

    Where I’ve walked so far

    Where I've walked so far

  • Walking the TfL map – 28 January

    Oooh, the first TfL map walk in a long while. I’m definitely out of practice, because this one hurt.

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    Today’s walk

    From Elstree and Borehamwood in the north of the map, down to Kings Cross St Pancras

    Where I’ve walked so far

    Most of the tube map has now been walked>

  • My October 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in October 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

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  • My September 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in September 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Unfortunately, this month's playlist has another track that I can't find on Spotify, so you'll need to use Apple Music if you want to listen to Free by The Moody Boys/Boyz.

    Listen to the playlist on these services:

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  • My August 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in August 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Annoyingly, the lovely Tape Machine by Open Reel Ensemble seems to be missing from Spotify, so you'll need to use Apple Music if you want to listen to that.

    Listen to the playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My July 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in July 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Listen to the playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My June 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in June 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Listen to the June playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My May 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in May 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Listen to the May playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My April 2025 playlist

    Well, that's April's playlist done.

    A new track added every day in April 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Listen to the April playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My March 2025 playlist

    A new track added every day in March 2025. No theme, just a collection of different tunes that can be played on random.

    Listen to the March playlist on these services:

    Older playlists

  • My February 2025 playlist

    Well, I kept this going for a second month.

    Here's February's playlist. As a reminder, I add a track a day, whatever takes my fancy. Some may be obscure, some may be hugely popular, could be anything.

    Listen to the February playlist on these services:

    Check out January's playlist.

  • My January 2025 playlist

    This month, I started making a playlist with a new tune added every day. I’m calling this project #TrackDay until I think of something better.

    There is no theme; tracks chosen might be old or new, obscure or hits, cool or cringe. They just have to be something that caught the ear of this nerdy middle-aged man.

    Now January is complete, I’ve used SongShift to make a Spotify version of the playlist too.

    Check out the January playlist on these streaming services:

  • Walking the TfL map – 2 June

    A shortish one today, clearing up some stuff out to the west of the map.

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    Today’s walk

    ticking off a couple of Metropolitan line stops, before following the Piccadilly down to Turnham Green

    Where I’ve walked so far

    A map showing the parts of the TfL map that I have walked.

  • Walking the TfL map – 27 May

    First walk in a long while. Taking advantage of the bank holiday to go through the Rotherhithe tunnel again when things aren’t too busy (it was still pretty grim though…)

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    Today’s walk

    Walking the Windrush down from Highbury & Islington to Sydenham

    Where I’ve walked so far

    A map showing the parts of the TfL map that I have walked.

  • Walking the TfL map – 07 March

    Once of the nice things about the different bits of the Overground getting names is that it gives me more lines to cross off.

    And on that note, the Mildmay line is now DONE.

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    Today’s walk

    I walked from Olympia to New Cross.

    Where I’ve walked so far

    A map showing the parts of the TfL map that I have walked.

  • Updating my walking map with the new names for the Overground lines

    Okay, so I haven’t done any more walks, but I have now updated my progress map to include the newly-named Overground lines.

    This also means that I can tick off 3 new lines: the Liberty, the Lioness and the Weaver.

    My walking progress so far

  • Walking the TfL map – 13 February

    This one was a bit of a slog to be honest. Walking through drizzle to finish off the Northern line.

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    Today’s walk

    I walked from Finchley to Edgware, via Camden.

    Where I’ve walked so far

    A map showing the parts of the TfL map that I have walked.
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