Filofax has long been associated with the city of London, their headquarters offices were there for many years, although not these days. They had shops in London, but again now sadly closed. A lot of the Filofax organiser names are places, districts within London.
During a quiet moment during my stay in London this last summer, I happened to be looking through the London Underground Tube map and I started to note down the station names that were also Filofax model names.
I was initially surprised at how many there are. Sure some of them need a little 'adjustment' to match the station name to the Filofax model name, but I'm sure that is allowed!.
This lead me on to thinking of a new London Tube Challenge. Visiting all of the stations listed in the least possible time. A visit basically means that the train you are on stops there. You don't have to physically get off and exit the station and reenter the station, although you can if you wish. Also you can use bus and walk between stations as well.
Where did I get this idea from? There are plenty of other Tube Challenges already, the main one involves visiting all of the underground stations (270+ stations) in London. This as you will see currently stands at under 16 hours! An on-line friend of mine Geoff Marshall has held the record twice, he has also done several other public transport related challenges including 'All the Stations' which was an epic trip around UK visiting all of the railway stations with his partner Vicki Pipe.
There are lots of 'Alternative Tube Challenges' as well, I wonder if we could get the Filofax Tube Challenge added to the site!
Naturally I've created a diary insert for our own Tube Challenge!
This is in Personal size, so just print it on to a single sheet of personal size paper and you are ready to go.
You might need to do some planning ahead of time and reorder the stations in to your own preferred route, so I've made the page available in Word and PDF format.
It would a fun challenge for a future London Philofaxy meet up may be!??
Love it & yes, it would be great fun at a meet up!
ReplyDeleteNot Tube-based, but I've wondered about a challenge where you photograph Filofaxes next to their town/city name signs or street signs...
You could certainly include that as an option within the 'Tube Challenge' But it would be also easy to include that in to all the other place names that have been used for Filofax model names on a wider scale. There's plenty of them!
DeleteSo for Finchley and Kensington, do you have a choice, or have to go through all>
ReplyDeleteI included them all, but you could choose to visit them all if you wish! Some are easier to integrate in to a route compared to others, different lines etc.
DeleteWait, there's no Malden station?
ReplyDeleteThere is Maldon in Essex, and New Malden in Surrey. And a Malden Manor station in Surrey:
Deletehttps://goo.gl/maps/y3QtjwXo4tS6w8W68
But no Malden on the London TFL map!