Part 1 (Masters, Experts and Novices)

TC1 at 177 in 1347

Y Y O W O O O G G R W W Y Y Y G Y Y Y Y Y Y Y G G G G G G G G G O O W W W W W W Y Y O Y Y Y Y Y G G G R R R Y Y Y Y Y O O O

TC2 at nearest T

Part 2 (Masters Only)

From TC2 proceed via

E E E E W E E W(T) W E E E W(>) E E E W E W W W W E E E W E E E W E E E D D D E D D E W E E E E W W W W W W W? E E E E E E E(+) W W W W N N N

TC3 at next grid line

Part 1 was a sequence of letters corresponding to the first letter of the road colours, Yellow, Orange, White, Green and Red. Each letter represented a section of road between two junctions in that colour.

Part 2 was the last letter of the colour, giving added difficulty as both Orange and White end with E. This was quite tricky so three symbols were added (T), (>) and (+) to assist. The intention was to indicate that you passed by a telephone, through a gradient and a plus sign at those points on the route, but I shouldn't have used () as this contradicts the "avoidance" regulation. This question was posed and answered on the forum, so I hope you were all following best practice and looking at the forum before starting each route card and again before submitting answers.

There was an error at the end of part 2. The end of the route should have been E(+) W W W W W N N N, an extra W was needed. Fortunately finding a best fit to the end wasn't too difficult. Having reached the yellow crossroads and the route ending with "N N N next grid line", there was really only one sensible yellow to take, SW to the green roundabout. Any other route would have meant adding in several other instructions, so this route ending at grid line 10 was the best fit.

RC2 - there was no YYYY at the start as the road heading south was NTR.
RC5 - comments were received regarding whether a letters broke the edge of the road or just their "halos", hence different answers were allowed. Some of you don't like the letters checks but think of it from my viewpoint - when different routes are chosen, I can work out where you've gone and whether I've got a wrong route. This became invaluable to me on a later route card!
RC9 - 3 or 4 GCs were accepted due to debate about whether the green circle at 09875138 covered the whole road or not. There was further discussion after provisional results about green circles which were filled in and those which were open. Both counted, as long as they completly covered the width of the road. The 1:50000 map legend provided in the Regs refers to both as cycle networks and GC states count Green Circles (Cycle Network symbols).

Route Card winner: Chris Towers