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• The London Buzz – 14th January 2025

  14-01-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Local Freeview channel for London, which launched in 2014 will close on Sunday evening as uncertainty over the future of local TV channels on Freeview persists. RXTV
  Only 5% of tenants living on the six ‘regeneration’ estates in Lambeth have been able to move into new homes built by the failed Homes for Lambeth. Brixton Buzz
  More than a tenth of all homes for rent in Greater London fail to meet the national minimum Decent Homes Standard, and rough
  
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• Tickets Alert: Open days to visit Pope’s Grotto

  14-01-2025 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  In the 1720s, the poet Alexander Pope dug a series of tunnels underneath his house in Twickenham — and 300 years later, they’re open to the public to explore.
  This is Pope’s Grotto.Alexander Pope bought a villa next to the Thames in Twickenham in 1719 and, at some point shortly afterwards, decided to dig a grotto underneath the house. Atmospheric grottos were a popular folly for the rich to build, but while most are little more than small shallow spaces, Pope dug a long tunnel
  
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• Thomas the Tank Engine is coming to Train Sim World

  14-01-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The railway simulator Train Sim World has announced that it will soon add Thomas and Friends to the add-ons so everyone can play at being Thomas.
  (c) Dovetail Games
  Unlike previous Add-ons, the gameplay here will be entirely story-driven, with a fun narrative that follows the adventures of Thomas and his friends during their visit to the West Somerset Railway.
  When released later this year, the Thomas Add-on will require both Train Sim World 5 and the West Somerset Railway route Add-on, and will
  
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• Piccadilly line to remain suspended between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge until late-January

  14-01-2025 13:16 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans to restore Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge have been pushed back to late January.
  Transport for London (TfL) closed the Piccadilly line between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge and has been running a reduced service between Acton Town and Rayners Lane to limit further wheel damage caused by unusually intense leaf fall last autumn, which damaged some of their trains.Services were due to be restored by now, but TfL now says that while it continues to make “good prog
  
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• Taboo and the designers who shaped London’s fashion revolution

  14-01-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A nightclub that closed barely a year after it opened is the subject of an entire exhibition, thanks to the exceptional legacy it left in its wake. This was Taboo, founded by Leigh Bowery, an Australian-born designer and artist, who emerges from the exhibition as someone far more important to London’s art and fashion scene than I had ever expected.This is an exhibition based around the nightclub, and even in places, it looks not unlike a nightclub, but is really about what was going on aro
  
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• Larger trains on the Northern line? The 1860s railway that could have been

  14-01-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If a planned railway from the 1860s had come to pass, people travelling on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line could have been travelling in much larger trains than they do today.
  Following the success of the Metropolitan Railway, which opened in 1863 to great acclaim, several plans were put forward for new railways in central London. One of them, the North Western and Charing Cross Railway (NW&CCR) was proposed in 1863 to build a line linking Euston and Charing Cross.
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