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• Weekend rail closures will disrupt Gatwick and Brighton train journeys in early 2026

  16-12-2025 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  There will be several weekends of closures on the Brighton Mainline in the first few months of 2026, affecting travel to Gatwick Airport and Brighton.
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  Network Rail says it will be carrying out essential maintenance and upgrades along the entire line. They usually aim for winter work on the line, as it’s quieter than the busy summer season.
  The closures will mean there’s no connection between London Bridge and Gatwick Airport, but a longer diversion route w
  
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• Free light and sound show to fill City of London’s historic sites

  16-12-2025 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  For two nights in January, several areas of the City of London will be lit up in a new sound and light festival.Vibrance will feature more than a dozen artworks across five locations, transformed by artists, designers and performers from the Guildhall School.
  The shows will be free to attend and take place on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th January 2026 from 5:30 to 8:30pm.
  It’s likely to be best to walk the route in the following order – starting at Guildhall, and ending at Milton Cou
  
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• A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

  16-12-2025 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Electricity has started flowing through a deep-level tube train sized tunnel running through South London.
  New power cables map (c) National Rail
  The first of two new circuits that connect National Grid’s New Cross substation in Southwark with its Hurst substation in Bexley is now live, running for 18km beneath South London through tunnels up to 50 metres deep.
  This new link replaces one of two buried cables that have served the capital since the 1960s, with the other to be replaced when t
  
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• Buttons, blood and bright red tunics: Inside the revamped Guards Museum

  16-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The large and surprisingly little known Guards Museum near Buckingham Palace has revamped some of its displays and starts with an unexpected story of soldier buttons.The museum tells the history of the five regiments of Foot Guards, namely the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards, and ranges from their foundation up to the modern day. So a visit is a walk through history as brightly coloured uniforms worn in combat were slowly supplanted by the far more practical combat wear worn
  
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