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A few of you have asked how you can can get your hands on an EOTL TShirt

... OK one person has asked how he can get his hands on an EOTL TShirt, so Alick, here's how it's done:

1) Follow the link below and click on the…

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It's taken us a while to get the arithmetic straight but Biggs and I are now agreed that there are 21 EOTLs in total. Since we’re going to end our adventure on a double Metropolitan Line high (Chesham and Amersham! *) this Saturday’s trip to Richmond was to be our penultimate EOTL.

Richmond is of course very posh and leafy. People like to mess…

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You might recognize this month’s title as the opening line from Ann and Joe, a song by The Barron Knights. Critical theorists have suggested that this song might be loosely related to Angelo by The Brotherhood of Man with its opening line: “Long ago, high on a mountain in Mexico…”. Whatever the merits of this argument you don’t have…

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Biggs and I are becoming aware that the end is nigh for EOTL. There’s been some controversy recently about how many EOTLs we’ve actually done* but we can agree at least that most of them are behind us now. With only half a dozen or so trips left we decided to face up to one of our last major challenges. A Metropolitan Line monster: Watford.

Granted it’s…

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I know that many of our readers like nothing better than to spend an evening perusing…

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Winston Churchill had his Wilderness Years. We’ve been quiet for a few weeks too. Brixton seemed like an obvious choice therefore for EOTL10. Technically it’s EOTL but really it’s not.

We had some beers. Biggs had a Pepperoni Pizza at the Dogstar.

That's about…

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I’m not the sort of person who is gushed at by tearful friends at airports or embraced by family members when I get on a train. The closest I ever got was in 1992 when I convinced my parents to see me off from Glasgow Central station at the start of my new London life. I conceded that they could sit in the coffee shop…

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There are three things I want to say about Ealing.

The first is that you shouldn’t get your hopes up on the famous residents front. I’ve tried my best with the EOTL03 video collection but beyond Matt Munroe…

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EOTL02 proved much more difficult to organise than EOTL01. A trip to Stanmore (one time home to Roger Moore, Billy Idol & Beardyman) had fallen by the wayside in January. Now well into February we still had 20 EOTLs to fit in before the end of the year. Father Time was breathing down our necks muttering “Stop…

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Snow had been falling for days. As I trudged towards the Arsenal tube station I thought of my namesake: Captain Robert Falcon Scott crossing the Antarctic. Scott would I felt sure have approved of our plan to have a beer in Cockfosters that night in spite of the…

We had agreed we were going to go to Cockfosters. Maybe it was the beer talking, I don’t know. Biggs and I were standing on the edge of a tube platform in South Kensington and a brand new decade that didn’t even have a name yet. It seemed to us that the time was right. Not that night true but soon, very soon...



Biggs had lived on the Piccadilly line for the best part of a decade and I’d been getting on at the Arsenal for even longer than that. Neither of us however had ever been…