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• The London Buzz – 3rd October 2024

  03-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm after a suspected acid attack outside a school in west London, the Metropolitan Police say. Independent
  A short film on how the design of a North London housing estate can create community and encourage independence and child’s play The Developer
  Work on an 18-storey Travelodge on the Greenwich Peninsula has stopped after the developer failed to pay a £2 million bill
  
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• London’s 2024 bonfire night firework displays

  03-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  It’s time to start plotting how we shall remember the downfall of a papist plot and watch the skies over London explode with fireworks. In a few locations, the displays still include the traditional bonfire.Baring a couple of October anomolies, the fireworks are also more spread out this year, spanning two weekends rather than being clustered over just one weekend as is usual. That gives you a lot more flexibility in planning a bonfire night and maybe getting to see several fireworks displ
  
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• KeolisAmey retains the franchise to operate the DLR

  03-10-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  KeolisAmey has retained the contract to run the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) for a further eight years.They’ve managed the DLR for the past decade, having taken over the service in 2015. With the new contract starting in April 2025, they will now run it until at least 2033.
  New performance incentives will be included as part of the new contract to increase the focus on reducing fare evasion and protecting TfL’s revenue. They will also be involved in the roll out of the new DLR train
  
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• Zaha Hadid’s flattened architectural models on display in Clerkenwell

  03-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  An unusual exhibition of architectural models has opened, of models that look as if they’ve all been flattened.These are a collection of paper linear models created by Zaha Hadid’s architecture practice to show off a building development without fussing over the full details of what the building would look like as an end product.
  They sit partway between flat design and fully three-dimensional models that architects show prospective clients. They’re also quite pleasing aestheti
  
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• A first look at the new Piccadilly line trains being built in Yorkshire

  03-10-2024 11:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A Yorkshire town is currently home to the distinctive appearance of a London Underground tube train, as a new fleet of Piccadilly line trains starts to come off the factory floor. These are the first of 94 new 9-car trains being built by Siemens Mobility for the Piccadilly line and potentially more later for the Bakerloo and Central lines.
  The first fully completed train car
  Siemens won the contract to build the trains in 2016, and although at the time it was expected that the trains would be bu
  
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• Euston’s future in limbo: HS2 speculation, overcrowding, and delayed decisions

  03-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Over the past few days, there’s been a flurry of pre-budget speculation that HS2 will definitely come to Euston, might come to Euston, definitely won’t come to Euston, or might stop somewhere else.
  It’s all a bit of a mess. A bit like Euston station itself.
  Euston station Oct 2024 (c) ianVisits
  It also doesn’t help — or maybe it does — that the existing rump of Euston station is also in the news a lot at the moment because of repeated reports of overcrowding.
  
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