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Lack of toilets and information blamed for passengers forcing open Elizabeth line train doors

01-08-2024 20:25 via ianvisits.co.uk

A review of how the railway industry supports people stuck on stranded trains says it needs to improve its aftercare once passengers have been removed from the trains. The review followed four incidents, including last December’s long shutdown of the tracks just outside Paddington, where seven trains came to a halt after overhead power lines were damaged.
It took up to five hours to fully evacuate passengers, and the lack of facilities, particularly toilets, was cited as a reason why passe

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The National Gallery’s ‘Last Caravaggio’ was their third busiest exhibtion in the past decade

01-08-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you visited the recent Caravaggio exhibition at the National Gallery and thought it was quite busy, you’re not wrong. The gallery has revealed that it was their third most visited exhibition of the past decade.The one-room display featured the last painting known to have been made by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, along with the letter that uncovered its identity in the 1970s.
The free exhibition received a total of 286,298 visitors over 95 days. That is an average of 3,014 visits p

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Tickets Alert: Guided tours of Wilton’s Music Hall

01-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Down an East End alley, the decaying frontage of one of London’s last surviving music halls can be found — and they offer tours of the building.
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Wilton’s Music Hall started in 1859 as a house that turned into a pub, then a music hall, then a warehouse, and is now once again a theatre space.
Conservation of the building hadn’t restored it to its original Victorian glory but preserved the appearance as it was at the turn of the century when it was in a p

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London’s Pocket Parks: Crabtree Fields, W1

01-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

On a side street off Tottenham Court Road you can find this very leafy pocket park, a legacy of WWII bombing, but is also far younger, dating only to the 1980s.Crabtree Fields was still fields right up to the 1740s, when developments along Tottenham Court Road started expanding outwards, and within 50 years, the whole area was covered in the street layout we pretty much see today. Crabtree Fields as a pocket park didn’t exist, though, as the area was filled with houses, facing a small pass

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