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Pictures show bridge replacement works on London Overground’s Chingford line

05-08-2024 17:10 via ianvisits.co.uk

London Overground services have resumed between Liverpool Street and Chingford after a 150-year-old bridge in Hackney was demolished during a 16-day line closure.
At the end of the demolition phase (c) Network Rail
The bridge, which carried Downs Park Road and Bodney Road over the railway, was in poor condition, and a full replacement was needed to avoid any future unplanned closures. In order to replace the road bridge, Network Rail had to close the railway, so the line closed on 20th July and

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Chance to see All Hallows Staining’s 14th-century Church Tower

05-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

If you don’t mind peering through gaps in fences, now is a really good time to see the 14th-century tower of All Hallows Staining church.Sitting next to Fenchurch Street station, All Hallows Staining was a church dating to around the 12th century and so called because, at a time when churches were made from wood, this church was made from stone (staining).
The church survived the Great Fire of London (all that stone helps), but collapsed just a few years later, probably because too many bu

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TfL names three stations being prioritised for step-free access

05-08-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Transport for London (TfL) has started design work that could see three more tube stations get step-free access, but only if funding for the construction work can be found.
TfL staff assists a customer (c) TfL
Tfl says that work is starting on the step-free designs for three Piccadilly line stations: Alperton, Arnos Grove, and Eastcote. This follows TfL confirming earlier this year that work to make Northolt Tube station on the Central line step-free and design work will start at North Acton (Ce

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Colourful 57-metre mosaic unveiled at London Bridge station

05-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A 57-metre long wall that snakes around the bus stop outside London Bridge station has been covered in a hand-made mosaic.Called In a River a Thousand Streams, it’s a work of art by Adam Nathaniel Furman, and was made from 250,000 individual pieces of glass mosaic and took two years to complete. The mosaic was assembled remotely at Gospel Oak’s London School of Mosaics and then applied in blocks to the concrete wall.
Although apparently a reference to the nearby River Thames, the art

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