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• Ilford station’s new ticket hall finally opens

  06-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The late-running upgrade of Ilford station for the Elizabeth line has been completed, as a new ticket hall and lifts opened to the public.The new ticket hall replaced an old entrance with a large pyramid-shaped roof from a 1980s rebuild which has been demolished and replaced with a much larger and more open ticket hall with more ticket barriers, and now lifts down to the platform. The opening of three new lifts provides step-free access to all platforms for the first time ever since the station&
  
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• A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain coming to Somerset House

  06-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Just in time for Halloween, an exhibition opens exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion.
  The Horror Show at Somerset House aims to offer a heady ride through the disruption of 1970s punk to the revolutionary potential of modern witchcraft, showing how the anarchic alchemy of horror – its subversion, transgression and the supernatural – can make sense of the world around us.
  (c) Somerset House
  Featuring over 200 artworks and objects,
  
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• An ex-military base offers tours of the National Maritime Museum archive

  06-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A former RAF base in southeast London that’s now a museum warehouse is starting to open up regularly for behind the scenes tours.The base was RAF Kidbrooke, a vast site that was mainly a logistics and supply site for the RAF, but was also a training school in the early days of the Cold War for Russian language specialists. It closed in 1965, and much of the site was turned into housing, but one section was taken over by the Royal Maritime Museum in Greenwich, and they use the old RAF build
  
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• ST Engineering iDirect introduces MCX8000: The Multi-Carrier Satellite Gateway for the Future of Broadcasting

  06-09-2022 12:00
  Advanced design offers the highest availability, reliability and density, resulting in lower total cost of ownership Herndon, Va. and Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 6, 2022 – ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, will be launching its new MCX8000 multi-carrier satellite gateway at IBC2022 in Amsterdam. The MCX8000 enables broadcasters to cater for every type of broadcast scenario, including high IP encapsulation rates for Over the Top (OTT) applications. T
  
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• Ontix and TCM IP Services Partner to Deliver a New Era of In-Building Mobile Cellular Connectivity

  06-09-2022 10:00
  
  Ontix and TCM IP Services are working to redefine the process of efficiently and affordably deploying 4G/5G-ready, fully JOTs-compliant, neutral host, in-building connectivity for multi-tenant properties London, UK Tuesday 6th September 2022 – Ontix, the company delivering Next-Generation Wireless Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and TCM IP Services, a leading IT and physical infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that they have partnered to deliver an innovative solution for in-bu
  
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• Step free access coming to Streatham station

  06-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Network Rail is about to start work on making Streatham station in South London accessible with a £5 million upgrade to add two lifts and revamp the ticket hall.
  (c) Network Rail
  At the moment, the station entrance is on a bridge over the railway, and there are steps down to the station’s two platforms. There is step-free access to Platform 1 (Croydon bound trains), but it’s via a rather long footpath, and there used to be a similar option for step-free access to the London-bou
  
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