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• The end of the “Euston Rush” as train companies improve boarding times at Euston station

  28-10-2024 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The “Euston Rush” might be on its way out, as Network Rail and the train companies are trialling earlier train boarding at the benighted railway station.
  Euston station with the ads switched off (c) ianVisits
  The current system at Euston station often announces which platforms trains are leaving from just a few minutes before departure, leading to the infamous “Euston Rush” as people race across the concourse to catch their train.
  Network Rail says that around 40% of Avan
  
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• The London Buzz – 28th October 2024

  28-10-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Ealing Broadway shopping centre’s central location, Town Square, will be undergoing renovation over the next few weeks with new seating being added for shoppers. Ealing Times
  In search of wild flowers on his bike – an author shares his botanical passion South London Press
  The annual commemoration of an Irish patriot who died in Brixton prison after a hunger strike heard today (27 October) how hundreds of Black people chanted “Victory to the
  
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• Young SEND interns helping to build the new Piccadilly line trains

  28-10-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  When the new Piccadilly line trains arrive in London, parts of them will have been built by students with special educational needs (SEND) who have been taken on by Siemens Mobility at their Goole factory.
  Google’s Piccadilly line train factory (c) ianVisits
  In collaboration with Selby College, Siemens Mobility is providing supported work opportunities for young people with learning disabilities between the ages of 18 and 24 to gain work experience alongside education.
  Six successful candi
  
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• New wooden train built by Rainham students arrives at Tesco store

  28-10-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A wooden train has arrived at Tesco Rainham as a decorative feature for the outside of the supermarket to replace an older one that was showing its age.
  (c) NCC Construction and Engineering Centre
  The train was created by students, apprentices and teachers from NCC’s Construction and Engineering Centre, also in Rainham
  The carpentry students designed and built the train, replacing the old one. It will be used as a planter for colourful shrubs and flowers or for other decorations according
  
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• Tickets Alert: Christmas Lates at the Natural History Museum

  28-10-2024 15:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  On what will be, for many, the last working day of the year, the Natural History Museum will be open late for an adults-only museum event.
  Christmas T.Rex 2023 (c) Natural History Museum
  Taking place on Friday 20th December, you can explore the galleries while a harpist fills the Museum with the sounds of Christmas or visit the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre exhibitions after hours.
  Sip mulled wine while you hear about the Museum in a whole new light from one
  
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• Rare tube maps on display at Knightsbridge’s Map House exhibition

  28-10-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Anyone walking past The Map House in Knightsbridge can be sure it’s hosting a display of tube maps, thanks to the gold tube map decal filling the shop window.And if you step inside, they’ve filled their shop with tube maps as part of a collective sale — so you can either visit to have a look, or if blessed with suitably deep pockets, to leave with one of them.
  Highlights include a one-of-a-kind draft copy of Harry Beck’s first Underground map, annotated by Beck and his pr
  
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• London’s Alleys: Flood Walk, SW3

  28-10-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This is a short passage in Chelsea that sounded more interesting than it ended up being and was a lot more confusing than I would have expected.
  The main road that Flood Walk leads off was originally a country lane called The Pound Lane.
  John Rocque’s “The Country Near Ten Miles Round” 1746
  It was later renamed Robinsons Lane, after Sir Ernest Robinson, around when housing developments were first appearing. By the 1820s though it had changed its name again, to Queens Street. Th
  
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