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• The London Buzz – 19th December 2024

  19-12-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A driver faces having to pay £300 after he was fined for “briefly waiting at a junction” before pulling out onto Bromley High Street. News Shopper
  “Displeasing And Absurd”: A hatchet job review of A Christmas Carol from 1843 Londonist
  Croydon Council has spent more than £6.4 million over the past year addressing issues of damp, mould, and other disrepair in its social housing properties, according to a new investigation. Lo
  
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• BT fights off £1.3bn UK class-action lawsuit

  19-12-2024 14:07 via ft.com
  
  Ruling is latest setback for claimants in new breed of collective legal action
  
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• Greater Anglia improves reliability at East London depot

  19-12-2024 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Greater Anglia says that increasing the flexibility of its overhead power lines has improved reliability at one of its depots.
  Orient Way depot (c) Greater Anglia
  Orient Way depot is located in East London, between Stratford and Lea Bridge, and is a critical facility with its twelve sidings, allowing for the parking and cleaning of trains around the clock.
  The depot has a carriage washing machine, which cleans the trains when they exit the sidings and enter into passenger service.
  Before Novembe
  
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• Whistle-Up: Join the largest railway celebration in history on New Years Day

  19-12-2024 13:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’re in a railway station on New Year’s Day, listen out for the largest mass railway participation event in history as hundreds of trains sound their whistles and horns at the same time.
  Railway 200 bunting in foreground with steam locomotive behind (c) Network Rail
  The event marks the start of a year of celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of the first passenger railway service* on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) in 1825.
  The Railway 200 Whistle-Up, spearhe
  
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• Highgate Cemetery shows off plans for £18 million upgrade

  19-12-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The Friends of the cemetery have shown off plans for a major upgrade of Highgate Cemetery’s visitor facilities as the cemetery approaches its bicentennial year.
  (c) Hopkins Architects
  Although still a functioning cemetery, the Cemetery is kept alive by the admission charges of some 100,000 people who visit each year and the continuing sale of graves.
  To keep the site relevant and accessible, the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust have embarked on a programme to improve access, backed by a
  
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• Studio Weave to replace British Museum’s ugly security sheds with elegant designs

  19-12-2024 11:25 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The ugly security sheds that have despoiled the entrances to the British Museum should be gone by early 2026, as the museum has awarded Studio Weave a design contract to replace them with something more fitting for the national museum.
  British Museum rear entrance
  Following an architectural competition, the chosen project was submitted by a team led by Studio Weave, with Wright & Wright Architects, Webb Yates Engineers, Tom Massey Studio and Daisy Froud.
  The team will now work with the Briti
  
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• TfL refreshes its uniforms to enhance staff visibility across London’s transport network

  19-12-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new year will see a new staff uniform starting to appear on London’s trains and buses as TfL is refreshing the design to make staff more visible on the network.
  (c) TfL
  The new design is a refresh of the uniform design first introduced in 2015 by HemingwayDesign and comes with brighter roundels representing each mode or team — which was a key request in feedback on the current uniform design from visually impaired customers.
  Michael Roberts, Chief Executive at London TravelWatch, s
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Westminster Abbey’s College Garden

  19-12-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you’ve ever walked past Parliament or seen the outside lawn where politicians are interviewed, you might have noticed a long stone wall and wondered what lies behind it. To find out, I am departing from my usual rule that a pocket park needs to be open to the public to be written about, as this one caught me completely by surprise.This is College Garden, claimed to be England’s oldest continuously cultivated garden, and despite visiting the Abbey loads of times I had never noticed
  
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