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• Chiltern Railways founder gets a bronze statue at Marylebone station

  05-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Adrian Shooter, the founder of Chiltern Railways when the railways were privatised has been celebrated in a new nine-foot bronze statue and plinth at Marylebone Station.Adrian Shooter, who started his career with British Rail in 1970, is considered one of the leading architects of the modern railway. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the Chartered Institute of Transport. He has worked at and led maintenance depots throughout the co
  
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• Telent announces new Chairman

  05-09-2022 16:07
  
  Warwick, U.K., September 5th 2022 - Telent Ltd, a leading UK technology and network services company, has announced the appointment of Paul Lester CBE as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the company. Paul joined the Board as of Friday 2 September 2022, succeeding David Naylor-Leyland who is stepping down as Chairman after 12 years in the position. David will continue to be a member of the Board, continuing as a Non-Executive Director. Paul has...Source: RealWire
  
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• Book Review: In The Shadow of St. Paul’s Cathedral

  05-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  St Paul’s Cathedral is almost too famous to write about, as so much has been written already that it would be a struggle to find something new to say. However, while most history books look at the building and the people who worked there, a new book turns its back on the grand edifice and looks at the ramshackle streets and trades that surrounded the cathedral.
  And they are far more fascinating, for this part of London was for centuries the heart of the city, the home to a maelstrom of com
  
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• Iskratel and S&T Slovenija merge to form S&T Iskratel

  05-09-2022 14:28
  
  Kranj, Slovenia – 5 September 2022 – Customers of leading European ICT company Iskratel will have access to an improved and greater range of services thanks to the merger with S&T Slovenija to form ‘S&T Iskratel’. S&T Iskratel ranks at the very top of Slovenian ICT companies in terms of size, expertise, number of markets served and communications solutions offering. The new company will be led by two Managing Directors, Sašo Berger and Robert Kuzmi&
  
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• DLR revamps timetables to offer more frequent trains

  05-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new timetable for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has been announced that should see more frequent trains from later this month. Transport for London (TfL) said that the change is being delivered by redistributing existing resources to better support how customers use the DLR – particularly now the Elizabeth line has opened.
  The ability to run more trains is being delivered by running shorter trains at times. So instead of, for example, 12 trains per hour with 3 carriages, they could r
  
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• M Mobility becomes Enreach

  05-09-2022 11:40
  
  Enreach strengthens its rapid European growth strategy and presence in Denmark with the rebranding of M Mobility Almere/Copenhagen, 5th September, 2022 – The Danish cloud telco service provider M Mobility, adopts the name of Enreach, the fast-growing European group providing converged contact solutions. With this step, Enreach, backed by independent investment firm Waterland Private Equity, continues to execute its unified strategy across all European markets. The rebranding further expand
  
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• London’s Alleys: Penton Grove, N1

  05-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a tiny stump of an alley to be found in Islington that used to be much longer than it is today. Penton Grove leads off White Lion Street, which is named after the former White Lion inn on the corner with Islington High Street. Penton Grove, as with the wider Pentonville area is named after Henry Penton, the developer of the area in the 1770s.There’s a curious oddity in the history of the area, as a Penton Grove just about shows up on a map in 1799, but it’s the next alley alo
  
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