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• January train strikes to cause serious rail disruption

  29-12-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Rail strikes next week are likely to see as much as 80% of train services cancelled for most of the week, the rail industry is warning.
  There are two 48-hour strikes taking place on 3rd/4th and 6th/7th January called by the RMT union, and a strike on the 5th January by the Aslef union.
  The Rail Delivery Group expects that on RMT strike days, around half of the network will shut down as RMT signal staff walkout, with only about 20% of normal services running, and on the 5th January, there could b
  
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• Rediscover Lucian Freud at the National Gallery

  29-12-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There are a few weeks left to see one of the largest collections of Lucian Freud portraits ever assembled in one place.His is undeniably a fairly unique style of painting, looking at times very rough and not particularly beautiful, he often painted people in a way that certainly didn’t bring out their inner beauty.
  However, he was a radical, pushing against 20th-century trends, and at times, pushing against the social and moral codes of the time. A painting of two men relaxing on a bed was
  
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• Overnight train from London to Berlin starts May 2023

  29-12-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A new low(ish) cost train service offers the opportunity, with a change at Brussels for an overnight train trip between London and Berlin.
  Berlin – by Stefan Widua on Unsplash
  The new service, set up by a couple of entrepreneurs, Elmer van Buuren of Train2EU and Chris Engelsman of Noord West Express, has been in planning for several years, with an initial fundraising effort in 2021 and since then they’ve been raising the rest of the money and looking for the sleeping cars for the tra
  
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• London’s Public Art: Geology Rebuilt 2022

  29-12-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  On a side street around the back of the rebuilt Tottenham Court Road tube station buildings is a new piece of art, that without wanting to be too unkind, does look rather like giant discarded chewing gum.It’s actually called Geology Rebuilt 2022, and is by the Chilean born, London based sculptor, Fernando Casasempere.
  Working with clay, ceramic, and industrial matter, Casasempere has built a reputation for creating sculptural works that are said to reflect his interest in the mark left on
  
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