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• DLR trains slow down as TfL reviews signalling system, affecting some routes

  16-09-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains are running slower in some places at the moment after Transport for London (TfL) decided to review some of the signalling systems that control train speeds.The DLR system has two maximum speeds, the usual one set in the timetable and an absolute top speed for each section of track. TfL felt that the margin between the two was no longer suitable, so as a precaution, they’re slowing the trains in some parts of the network.
  Although none of the DLR tra
  
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• Got a Punny Idea? Network Rail wants names for its Autumn leaf-busting train

  16-09-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Network Rail’s new leaf-busting trains will not be named Trainy McTrainFace, but they would like you to suggest a better name.
  Approaching leaf buster with laser fitted in autumn leaf fall treatment trials October 2022 (c) Network Rail
  The nights are drawing in, and temperatures are dropping, so there’s bound to be plenty of discussion about the changing of the seasons in the weeks ahead. But autumn conversations never stop at Network Rail.
  You may think, ‘it’s just a few
  
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• Kent factory completes final segment for HS2’s London tunnel

  16-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The final tunnel lining ring for HS2’s Northolt Tunnel West tunnel running under west London has been cast at its factory on the Isle of Grain ahead of being delivered to London.
  HS2 tunnel segment casting complete at PACADAR UK Isle of Grain factory (c) HS2
  The company began working on the segments in April 2022 and has completed the production of 59,129 segments, which make up 8,447 tunnel rings—seven segments per ring. Each segment weighs 7 tonnes on average, and the Kent-based fa
  
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• Sunflowers Reunited: A fresh look at Van Gogh’s masterpieces at the National Gallery

  16-09-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It seems that everyone is talking about the Van Gogh exhibition at the moment, such as the allure of a celebrity name married with a genuinely fresh insight into the artist.
  The exhibition focuses on the final two years of Vincent van Gogh’s life, a period of intense creativity spent in southern France. Although his legacy often emphasizes his mental struggles and tragic end, this exhibition steers away from that well-worn story to focus on the art he created.
  It shows that Van Gogh was fa
  
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• London Museum Docklands to celebrate mudlarkers and the treasures they discover

  16-09-2024 10:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Mudlarkers, those discoverers of trinkets and treasures along the Thames, are to be honoured with an entire exhibition that is all about the craft of uncovering what London’s river has concealed.
  Mudlarker Alessio Checconi with knee pads and gloves crouches on a rocky shoreline (c) London Museum
  Opening next year at the London Museum Docklands, the exhibition will examine how mudlarking transformed from essentially how poor Victorian children would scour the riverside rubbish for things to
  
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• London’s Alleys: Albion Channel, SE16

  16-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is an unusual one for the London Alleys series, as it’s a modern walk with a new canal created in the 1980s and a very pleasant walk to enjoy.To understand why it’s here, we need to go back to the 19th century, when surging imports from overseas saw the marshy Rotherhithe peninsula dug out to create a number of docks for the ships delivering cargo.
  At its peak, the peninsula was more water than land, with an estimated 85% of the space given over to docks, timber ponds and the Gr
  
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