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• New York subway station coming to London

  13-09-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you go to Canary Wharf next week, you’ll be able to visit a New York subway station – or at least, a replica of part of one. It’s  PR stunt, of course, to promote some new Manhattan style loft apartments.
  (c) Canary Wharf Group
  As part of the four-day event, New York’s famous yellow cabs will open the event on Water Street, while American hot dog or NYC-style pizza will be served from an authentic yellow school bus.
  Although an early CGI image suggests it’ll
  
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• Parts of Piccadilly and District lines are closing early on Friday

  13-09-2023 16:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is advising customers using the Piccadilly and District lines that the western branches will be closing from 8:30pm this Friday, and will be closed for most of the weekend for engineering works.This weekend, there are three closures affecting the two lines:
  District line between Earl’s Court to Ealing Broadway and Richmond – from 8:30pm on Friday until Monday morning.
  Piccadilly line between Hyde Park Corner to Northfields and Uxbridge from 8:30pm on Friday
  
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• New footbridge installed at Walton-on-Thames station

  13-09-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work to add step-free access to Walton-on-Thames station on the edge of southwest London has reached a milestone with the installation of a new footbridge.
  (c) Network Rail
  The station sits on a slightly raised embankment with four platforms, although the central two platforms are no longer in general use. The main entrance on the north side of the station is linked to the platforms via a narrow subway that runs under the railway.
  There’s no step-free access between the platforms, and ther
  
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• Battery powered Thames Clipper boats arriving in London

  13-09-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The first of a fleet of new river passenger boats has arrived in London, and they are Europe’s first hybrid high speed passenger ferries that can also run on batteries.The battery power is for use while the boats are in central London to reduce emissions, and then they switch to a vegetable-based fuel for the rest of the trips, and that is also when the batteries are recharged for their next pass through the centre.Three of the boats, all built in the UK by Wight Shipyard, have been ordere
  
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• Vodafone and Altice start digging in Germany, regardless of demand

  13-09-2023 12:34
  OXG Glasfaser, the fibre altnet joint venture between Vodafone and Altice, has broken ground in Germany and is sticking by its target of reaching 7 million premises in six years.
  Interestingly, it noted that it will push on with the build without paying heed to demand. Or as Stefan Rüter, member of the management team at OXG Glasfaser, put it in a German language statement this week: “We are implementing our expansion without pre-marketing and without a completion quota to be achieved
  
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• Orange Belgium bags Flanders connectivity contract

  13-09-2023 12:26
  The Flemish government has signed a five-year frame agreement with Orange Belgium that covers everything from traditional connectivity to IoT and 5G standalone services.
  Under the deal, Orange will supply various administrative bodies with more than 75,000 SIM cards and 9,500 IoT and M2M SIMs. The contract is worth €23 million and comes with an option to extend it by a further two years.
  In addition to network access, Orange will also provide a wide range of applications and services.
  These
  
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• Apple has its flattest ever iPhone launch

  13-09-2023 12:03
  Incremental component tweaks and a spot of light compliance meant Apple’s big product launch event struggled to emerge from the shadow of more interesting stories.
  As has now become the norm, Apple launched a range of four models: the iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, starting at £799, £899, £999 and £1,199 respectively. The Pro ones tend to have the very latest component upgrades while the specs of the vanilla ones tend to be more in line with last year&rs
  
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• London’s Public Art: Horse and Rider by Elisabeth Frink

  13-09-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Standing on Bond Street is a sculpture of a man riding a horse that used to be somewhere else, but in 2018 they rode here from their original home a few streets away.The sculpture dates from 1974/5 and was commissioned as a piece of public art by Trafalgar House for an office development on the corner of Piccadilly and Dover Street.  The artist was Dame Elisabeth Frink. Her Times obituary in 1993 noted the three essential themes in her work as “the nature of Man; the ‘horseness&
  
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