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• Camden’s Buck Street Market transforms into Boxpark ahead of Tube station upgrade

  11-06-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A plot of land that will be needed when Camden Town tube station gets a second entrance is to become a Boxpark instead — at least until the tube station upgrade goes ahead.
  Site layout – over Google map
  The site, to the north of Camden Town station, was occupied by Buck Street Market until it was taken over by shipping containers from Lab Tech, the firm behind the wider redevelopment of Camden’s markets.
  In October 2023, TfL bought the site to secure it for the tube station upg
  
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• Wimbledon, Football and Olympics outdoor screenings

  11-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There’s a summer of sports ahead, with Wimbledon, Euro football and the Paris Olympics — and away from watching at home or in the pub, several large outdoor screens are set up across London.
  As you might expect, seats tend to get grabbed fast for the big matches, but you’ll often be able to sit on the floor or grass, so bring a rug.
  The ones I have found so far are below. If I’ve missed any, add them to the comments at the bottom of this page. Thanks.Battersea
  Summer spor
  
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• Capturing the human psyche: Charles Lutyens’ paintings at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

  11-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A pair of dark, wide eyes stares out at visitors as they pass by, but not judging or scary, but with youthful vigour. This is the very young Charles Lutyen, an artist but, more than that, a therapist who helped people suffering from mental health problems turn to art for support.Charles Lutyens, born in London in 1933, studied oil painting and sculpture at the Chelsea, Slade and St Martin’s schools of art, before initially settling at the Fabyc community — a sort of London kibbutz, a
  
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• TfL-style contactless payments expanding on Chiltern Railways: More stations go live this month

  11-06-2024 12:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  TfL-style contactless payments for train tickets are expanding and will be added to several Chiltern Railways stations at the end of this month.
  Photo by Steph Gray on Unsplash
  The expansion of the pay-as-you-go contactless payments on Chiltern services is part of “Project Oval”, a government scheme to expand TfL’s service across much of the southeast of England. The £20 million rollout is being funded by the Department for Transport (DfT) and carried out by TfL with the
  
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• Wider footbridge planned for Silvertown housing development

  11-06-2024 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A curvy footbridge planned for east London will be wider than originally planned after the local council agreed to fund a larger bridge to carry more people.
  Original width: Source – planning documents, Moxon Architects with Buro Happold and Eadon Consulting
  The Royal Victoria Dock Bridge will span the docks, linking a large housing development of around 6,500 new homes around the derelict Millenium Mills to Custom House station for the DLR and Elizabeth line.
  The development on the south
  
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• Potential revival of direct Tonbridge-Gatwick train service explored by Network Rail

  11-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Nearly twenty years after direct trains were cancelled, Network Rail is considering resuming a direct link from Tonbridge to Gatwick Airport.
  Gatwick-Tonbridge route highlighted on Network Rail map
  A research paper by Network Rail looks at options to increase train passenger use along an existing railway link and see if that would reduce road traffic between Kent and the airport.
  At the moment there is a shuttle service along the railway that links Tonbridge and Redhill, then people need to swap
  
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