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• The London Buzz – 21st October 2024

  21-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A mental health charity is to lose its Greenwich base after 45 years because of council cutbacks. The Greenwich Wire
  Motorists are facing lengthy delays on sections of the M25 and M26 after a Tesco lorry burst into flames following a crash. BBC News
  The Westminster townhouse used as a bolt-hole by Margaret Thatcher when she was ousted from power in 1990 has come on the market priced at £3.65 million. Standard
  The charity responsible for London’s R
  
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• Tickets Alert: Visit the West India Docks Impounding Station

  21-10-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you live near Canary Wharf, you might regularly pass a rather modest brick building, but hidden within is an industrial delight.This is the West India Docks Impounding Station, and huge engines pump water into the docks to keep them filled and slightly higher than the Thames so that when dock gates are opened, water doesn’t rush into the docks. At full power, the three pumps inside the building can pump 65 million gallons into the docks over a four-hour period around high tide.
  The Impo
  
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• There’s a Beetlejuice-themed train arriving at Stratford next week

  21-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Next week, Stratford will have a Beetlejuice-themed train carriage as a pop-up tie-in with the movie and a well-known soft drink company.Once you’ve checked your train ticket with the security guard, you’ll be able to step onto the train for a journey through the eerie Attic, Fanta-smical Afterlife Waiting Carriage, spooky Graveyard, and the Sandworms of Saturn. There will also be a competition to solve the puzzles and win a limited-edition can of Afterlife soft drink with a Beetleju
  
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• Improving passenger information on the Elizabeth line

  21-10-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Last week, a new sign appeared at the end of the Elizabeth line, making it much easier to know which train is leaving first.The stations at the end of the line often have two (or more) platforms where trains terminate before returning to town, so when passengers arrive, the issue of which train is leaving first can arise.
  It’s not a huge problem, as stations have many train departure boards, but the text size can be problematic to read if you’re in a hurry. Also, to stop people from
  
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• London Overground’s West London Orbital extension study due soon

  21-10-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Work on a proposed West London Orbital extension of the London Overground is still ongoing, but the early feasibility report is nearly ready for TfL and the local councils to consider.
  (c) TfL
  If built, the West London Orbital (WLO) could link Hounslow to Old Oak Common via Neasden and then head to either Brent Cross West and/or West Hampstead. The plans have been under development since 2017, but as always, how to pay for the railway upgrade is the key issue.
  The plan is to convert a little-use
  
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• Treasures of the Silk Roads: British Museum and British Library explore realities of East-West trade

  21-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Typical, you wait for ages and then two exhibitions about the Chinese Silk Road open in London at the same time — giving two very different looks at the famous if usually misunderstood trading link between East and West.
  British Museum
  This exhibition aims to show how the classic idea of the Silk Road in popular culture is wrong and that, in fact, even the name is a relatively recent invention. It was less a defined route and passage across the lands and more of a cluster of regions that t
  
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