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• Mummers, wassail and folklore: Bankside marks Twelfth Night with free riverside revels

  23-12-2025 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Bankside’s annual Twelfth Night revels will return on Sunday 4th January, as the Lions Part troupe of actors perform a mummers play for free.A festival, to mark the end of Christmas and the wassailing of the apple trees to wake them from their slumber, is a staple of English customs, and the Lions Part performs an urban rendition each year.
  If you are fond of “ye olde english traditions”, then you’re bound to love this.
  The revels begin outside Shakespeare’s Globe t
  
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• Old trains, new wheels: Southeastern’s train wheels heads to Crewe for a major refresh

  23-12-2025 11:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Nearly 100 Southeastern trains are to get their wheels refurbished after signing a £20 million contract with Alstom.
  General view of Slade Green and sidings with Networker units (c) Network Rail
  Southeastern’s Class 465 Networker fleet first entered passenger service in 1992, and the overhaul enables Southeastern to keep operating them while it waits for a replacement set of more accessible trains in a few years time.
  The maintenance project will see the wheel bogies that sit underne
  
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• From soggy piles to wooden beams: Inside Colindale’s new timber tube station

  23-12-2025 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After a couple of years of building work, London Underground’s first* modern tube station built using timber construction has opened to passengers at Colindale on the Northern line.
  From this
  To this
  The new open-span entrance, topped by a timber roof, replaces a much smaller structure that was built after the original entrance was damaged during the Second World War. As well as subtle references to the area’s aviation heritage through the use of glulam timber, the station’s or
  
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