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Vandalised heritage tube train returning to the tracks

24-06-2024 20:40 via ianvisits.co.uk

The 1938-era art-deco tube train, covered by graffiti by vandals on the eve of a special tour, will return to the tracks next month.
A previous outing of the 1938 stock (c) ianVisits
The heritage tube train had been out on test trips ahead of a special day of tours on the London Underground when it was attacked overnight, and its exterior was covered in graffiti.
The damage meant the London Transport Museum had to cancel all the heritage trips and offer refunds to passengers. Since then, staff a

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Ten new cycle routes completed across London

24-06-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

London’s dedicated Cycleways have been extended by another 35km as ten new cycle routes have been completed. The new routes connect communities in areas including Stratford, New Cross, Barnet, Walthamstow, and Ealing.
The recently upgraded Cycleway 4 at Surrey Quays
TfL and the boroughs’ continued work to develop Cycleways in London means the strategic cycle network has more than quadrupled in size from 90km in 2016 to 390km in June 2024.
The new Cycleways that further expand the net

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V&A Museum’s Naomi Campbell exhibition: Where is Naomi?

24-06-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

An exhibition about a person would not unreasonably be expected to be about the person, and yet the V&A Museum’s homage to fashion model Naomi Campbell has a remarkably large hole in the middle – where is Naomi?She’s here as an echo of memories, a more glamourous Miss Havisham inhabiting a room full of grand clothes on mannequins and locked behind glass walls.
But the story of Naomi is missing.
There are bits here and there, but one of the difficulties is that an exhibition

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The London Tunnels raising £30 million to open Cold War tunnels as a tourist attraction

24-06-2024 12:15 via ianvisits.co.uk

The company that plans to open London’s Cold War tunnels to the public is raising £30 million to start the process of refurbishing them into a tourist attraction.
One of the tunnels (c) DBOX for The London Tunnels
The London Tunnels company has announced that it will list shares on Euronext Amsterdam, valuing the company at an initial £130 million. Following the listing, the company will raise £30 million by selling shares to investors to start the refurbishment work.
The

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London’s Alleys: St Stephens Passage, TW1

24-06-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The origins of this narrow alley in Twickenham are exceptionally easy to guess when you look at its neighbour, St Stephen’s Church. This is the alley that separates the church from the houses.Although the area was still fields in the 1740s, John Roque’s map already shows what would later become the local road layout. The area developed fast, though, following the arrival of the railway line in 1848.
OS Map 1864
The later arrival of the railway station at St Margarets in 1876 followed

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