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• Save the date: Class 455 train farewell tour in December

  06-11-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  South Western Railway (SWR) is bidding farewell to its red-liveried Class 455 trains, and there will be a special farewell tour in December.
  Older and Oldest — at Waterloo station (c) ianVisits
  The Class 455 trains were built by British Rail Engineering between 1982-85 and have been in service on the SWR routes since March 1983, making them among the oldest trains still in use on the UK railway.
  As the trains are phased out in favour of the new Class 701 Arterio trains, SWR and the Branch
  
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• Your artwork could light up Battersea Power Station this Christmas

  06-11-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Battersea Power Station is going to project images of Christmas trees onto its famous chimneys, and they want you to design them.It’s actually a design competition run by Apple, which has its UK offices in the Battersea estate. As an Apple competition, your design has to be created on an Apple device.
  They don’t like Android Christmas trees.
  As it happens, there’s a related fitness in apples, as the Christmas tree baubles indirectly derive from the Biblical story of Adam and Ev
  
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• Is that Silver Nemesis on St Pancras station’s rotating Christmas tree?

  06-11-2025 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  St. Pancras station’s annual branded Christmas tree has arrived, and they’ve put Dr Who’s Silver Nemesis on the top.Actually, it’s a glowing ballet dancer slowly rotating at the top, but thanks to being incredibly difficult to photograph close up and keep the details, it really does look like the famous Doctor Who weapon/villain.
  That we’re also looking up her skirt is maybe a tad awkward?What we’re told is that there’s a musical box on the base, and you
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Arlington Square, N1

  06-11-2025 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  This is a well-tended pocket park in the heart of an 1850s development of well-to-do terraced houses and former artists’ cottages.Unusually for a formal square surrounded by houses, the houses also have their own back gardens, which makes the park an unusual survivor, as there would have been fewer objections to building on it had the opportunity arisen.
  The area was land owned by The Clothworkers’ Company and developed by Henry Rydon around 1850. At the heart of the development is A
  
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