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Chingford station’s second entrance to remain closed following review

08-07-2024 17:30 via ianvisits.co.uk

Chingford Station at the northern end of the London Overground has two entrances, but only one is used now, and a proposal to reopen the second entrance has been put on hold.
The main entrance faces north towards the station car park and bus stops, but a smaller second entrance on the southern side was available for people to use an alley if heading towards Beresford Road on the eastern side of the railway.
Station details overlay on Google maps
However, the station’s previous management a

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Tickets Alerts: Evening tours of the Charles Dickens Museum

08-07-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you’ve ever wanted to explore the Charles Dickens Museum after hours, now is your chance with their Guided Evening Tours.
Charles Dickens Museum (c) ianVisits
Explore Charles Dickens’s historic home with a museum guide and see the rooms where Dickens lived, worked, and wrote and view the museum’s collection. Hear the stories of events that took place within these walls, learn about Dickens’s rise to fame, discover what life was like for early Victorians, and listen to

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Eurostar rail strike threat during Olympics averted

08-07-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The threat of rail strikes on the Eurostar trains during the Paris Olympics has been averted after the RMT union accepted a pay bonus offer from Eurostar.
Eurostar at St Pancras International
The RMT had rejected Eurostar’s proposed shift-based payment system and was negotiating for a one-off bonus payment for more staff. The union was in the middle of balloting members for strike action while continuing negotiations.
The RMT says that Eurostar will now provide a one-off payment of at leas

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More Elizabeth line trains arriving in Summer 2026

08-07-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Elizabeth line will have a more frequent service from the middle of 2026, when the first of ten additional trains start arriving in London.
Elizabeth line trains at Old Oak Common (c) ianVisits
The ten additional trains were ordered in the dying days of the last government, partially to assist in keeping Alstom’s Derby factory functioning but also because Transport for London (TfL) was able to put forward a strong case that it needed them to deal with surging passenger numbers on the E

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London’s Alleys: Skinners Place, SW1

08-07-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Around the back of Sloane Square tube station is this short rather fine passageway that was once a lot longer until the railway sliced through the middle of it.Skinners Place is about 200 years old, having been laid out in the late 1820s as the area developed from fields into the posh housing that dominates Chelsea today. You can see half the alley laid out in this Greenwood map from 1828, but looking like it was going to be called Union Street. Half the survives today although at the time, it o

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