Time for a selfie en route (Picture: SWNS)

There are 593 different bus routes in London, and these men are the first to ride them all in 24 hours.

The so-called ‘extreme commuters’ hit every area of the capital in an impressive feat that we probably won’t try to copy.

‘I don’t look at architecture, I don’t look at sights – it doesn’t interest me,’ Adham Fisher said.

‘I just care about going to every point, station, stop on a transport network as quickly as possible, anything else is just meaningless to me.’


He achieved the milestone on his second attempt, along with Hugo Marrow, Martin Hazel, David Edwards and Josh Nichols-Ageros following months of planning on September 7.

Adham Fisher living his best life (Picture: SWNS)

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Their mission took them past some of London’s greatest sights including Nelson’s Column, Oxford Circus and Marble Arch.

It took them 23 hours and 26 minutes – and yes, there was plenty of running to catch the bus.

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So how did they do it?

It’s mathematically impossible for one person to take every bus – or even four people, apparently.

So the five split up to take different areas of London like central, east or west, each paying just £4.50 on their Oyster Card for the day of travel.

Computing and mathematics PhD students helped them by tracking the buses they’d be taking and any diversions.

They planned their schedule around the least frequent buses, including the 603 towards Swiss Cottage which only runs four times a day.

Hugo Marrow had a nap on the way (Picture: SWNS)

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To get in as many trips as possible, they often took buses from major stations for single stops then ran back to take another route.

Hugo Marrow, who did most of the planning, took the first bus, route 1 from Waterloo, at midnight and Adham Fisher took the last, route 298 from Southgate, north London.

They each walked and ran an estimated more than 50km between stops, going as far as Upminister in the east, Orpington in the south, Hook in the west, and Watham Cross in the north.

Mr Fisher, of Leicester, who holds the Guinness World Record for visiting every stop on Berlin’s metro system, said: ‘The only landmark I can actually recall is the Westfield shopping centre and of course the Stratford shopping centre which I ran through six times.

It’s mathematically impossible for one person to do all of them (Picture: SWNS)

‘I know that Hugo and David would have gone past the National Gallery several times because they were in Trafalgar Square for the first two or three hours catching all the night buses.

‘I don’t see the streets or landmarks, if you want to meet me somewhere in London you just have to come to the nearest tube station, DLR or overground or bus station.

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‘Something like this bus jaunt would be absolutely impossible without technology because all of us had to be aware of what everyone else was doing.’



Mr Fisher has spend thousands of pounds on extreme commuting since his mid teens and held the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to go to every Paris Metro station from 2011 to 2016 (someone else beat his time after that).

‘I cannot really explain it, it just is what it is,’ he said.

‘You can’t compare it to climbing Everest, if you want to know what a transport excursion like this is you have to do it yourself, no amount of explanation can do it justice.’