It's the 30th May 2008, and what has now become an annual event has come around again - it's the 'Zone 1 Only' Tube Challenge - where you have to get round all 62 stations that are in the Zone 1 area in the fastest time possible.
Transport correspondent Vicki Pipe explores another method of moving around London. This time, she's taking to the water as she takes a trip on a Thames River Bus.
The London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is well known, but it also has a working museum depot that opens just a couple of times a year down at Acton Town - we went along on one of its open days to see what was there.
The DLR has a new branch - between Canning Town and Stratford International with new stations at Star Lane and Abbey Road as well. So we went out to explore the new line and have a look at the new stations
Richie Firth from the Absolute Radio Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show, has a crack at getting round all 270 tube stations (they called it "Tubeathon"), with a little help from former world record holder, Geoff Marshall.
It's the first NON-Official video, as it's a bonus one from Geoff. Expect roughly one bonus video a week here on Geoff's channel, whilst getting the official four-a-week videos on the main 'All The Stations' channel.
At Kennington Green, the shaft to the Northern Line Extension is the location for the final TBM to breakthrough - a landmark in the tunnelling process, and I popped down to the press event to watch it happen.
Network Rail got in touch to ask "Would I like a ride in their helicopter?" - over the Christmas period when no trains were running into Charing Cross and Cannon Street. "Yes please!" I replied
As part of the Thameslink Upgrade Programme, Platforms 1-5 at London Bridge reopened today, along with new entrances on the Tooley Street side of the station.
On May 14th 2017, I never visited the Isle of Wight as part of 'All The Stations' - or did I? It was time to go back to the Island to tell the story of why people think that it wasn't visited.
It's the 6th February 2018, and in eighteen months time London will get its newest railway station, when Angel Road closes, and Meridian Water take is place, Network Rail had a Press Day and invited people along to have a look
ATO (Automatic Train Operation) is already working on five London Underground lines, but it's now come to the National Rail network too. And we too a ride on the first ever one .
So taking a short trip on the tube from Zone 1 to Zone 2, or Zone to Zone 2 THROUGH Zone 1 always costs you £2.40 (in the off-peak, it's £2.90 in the peak) for the adult fare, except - not always.
To tie in with the FIFA World Cup 2018, Southgate Underground Station was 'renamed' for two days to 'Gareth Southgate' instead, so Geoff decided to go in the Tube to pay a visit to this station
In between Kentish Town and Elephant and Castle you can either travel on the Northern Line, or using Thameslink. TfL's Tube Map only shows the Underground service, but we think it might be quicker not to use the Tube. Time to find out.
Another episode of 'Secrets...' this time, we went up to Scotland, to ride on the brilliant Glasgow Subway system with its fifteen stops to see what things we could spot that you might not have known about or missed.
I visited Innotrans 2018, where the new train that it scheduled to come to the Glasgow Subway in 2020 was on display, and it seemed rude not to make a quick video about it .
Back in the summer, Matt (who runs the on board passenger information systems for Thameslink) asked me if I'd like to be the voice announcing the Brighton Mainline Closures that are coming up - I said yes.
Victoria Underground station now has step free access to all platforms with the introductions of new lifts, along with the new escalators and passageways that are all part of the station upgrade. We went for a look around.
There are 39 stops on the London Tram network down in Croydon, and there's an unofficial 'record' as to the fastest time that you can visit the, all in.
GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) are rolling out their new trains on the Northern City Line out of Moorgate (replacing 40 year old units) and invited me along on a test trip.
It was time to get back out onto the DLR and make another video about all the things you may have missed, not seen, or not know whilst travelling around on it.
Gatwick Express turns 35 this week and they asked me along to ride their service, and talk to several members of the brilliant staff - the staff of course of any railway who are the core of what makes it work.
Saturday 18th May 2019, and GWR ran their last ever full-set HST services out of Paddington in the evening, in a special setup where four trains left between 18:00 and 18:30 all serving different destinations.
The distance between Leicester Square and Covent Garden Tube stations is just 270 meters, so that does mean it's quicker to walk it than to take the train?
Hugo's here. Which means its BUS FUN times, and using the Bus Hopper fare (unlimited bus and tram travel in 70 minutes) travel for 26 miles across London, for just £1.50. Is it possible? Would we make it? We started in Orpington.
The Gospel Oak to Barking Line (GOBLIN) is offering free travel to everyone that uses it between 31st August and 1st October 2019. So I went out to make some journeys to see how it worked.
On the London Rail and Tube Map, Brookmans Park has appeared with a 'Contactless' symbol next to it, denoting it can be used for Contactless PAYG travel, but NOT Oyster cards.
I caught up with Andy from 'Calling All Stations' again, as we wanted to test out another fastest way between two points in London. This time, to check if it is faster to go from King's Cross to Stratford by high speed or on the tube
It's Part 2 (or should that be Part Zero?) of visiting the EIGHT stations in Great Britain that have a 'Platform 0' and with our train to Edinburgh cancelled, we leave King's Cross on a different train instead heading for Doncaster.
So there's an unofficial 'record' time for travelling to all 45 stops on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in London, of 1 hour and 53 minutes, but I'd never actually given it a go myself.
TPE have recently introduce three brand new types of train to their network, so I met up with Phil from Modern Railways magazine to see if we could find and ride on all three types in one day, and see what we thought of them.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) asked me a few weeks ago if I'd like to come and try out their simulators at Hornsey Depot, to which I of course said "Yes!".
There are EIGHT stations is Great Britain that have a 'Platform 0' and the time finally came to go and visit them all, meet people along the way, discuss why they are there and see what else we can find out.
The nice people down at Go Coaches down in Sevenoaks invited me down for the day to try out their service and ride on some buses, completely on demand.
Dovetail Games - the makers of Train Sim World 2, which lets you realistically drive a Bakerloo Line Underground Tube Train - invited me down to their offices in Chatham, to talk to them
There are 50 stops on the NET - that's the Nottingham Tram system, and here's why happened when myself and friend Jono (who's from Nottingham) got on and off at all the stops on the network.
On the small island of Alderney in the Channel Islands, did you know there's a railway which uses old Tube Stock to run its services. So I took a trip and spent a few days there to explore the island
