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• Royal Mail steams ahead with Hornby centenary postage stamps

  17-02-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Royal Mail has issued an eight-stamp set marking more than a century of Hornby Model Railways.
  Four of the eight stamps (c) Royal Mail
  Founded by Frank Hornby, whose first clockwork Hornby Series trains appeared in 1920, the company began producing models of real British locomotives in 1929. For many railway enthusiasts, Hornby became a parallel record of railway history — preserving classes, liveries and eras long after the originals had disappeared from the network.
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• Star Trek beams into the Science Museum with films, props and late-night events

  17-02-2026 14:13 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The Science Museum is boldly going where no science museum has (probably) gone before, opening a season of Star Trek events that beam sci-fi imagination straight into the realm of real science.
  M CBS Studios Inc. (c) 2026 Par. Pics.
  To mark Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, the Science Museum will launch several months of events with a late-evening opening of the museum for adults next month.
  The museum late takes place on Thursday 26th March, and will feature a range of Star Trek themed event
  
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• Who really made Dickens? New exhibition credits the women he depended on

  17-02-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Charles Dickens’s novels are often criticised for their idealised passive female characters, but as the Dickens Museum now shows, he was, in life and in death, surrounded by formidable, intelligent and independent women.
  Charles Dickens Museum
  A new exhibition at the museum shifts attention away from Dickens as a solitary genius and instead places women at the centre of his creative world and cultural afterlife.
  One of the exhibition’s most moving threads centres on Mary Hogarth, Dic
  
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• Northern line upgrade could bring a new train depot to a former horse hospital

  17-02-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A long-term aspiration to run more trains on the Northern line could see a new depot being built on the site of a former railway horse hospital in North London.
  Totteridge and Whetstone station
  Transport for London (TfL) aspires to increase the number of trains on the Northern line at peak times to 36 per hour, but doing so would require 45 additional berths to accommodate the extra trains required for the more intensive service.
  TfL has worked out that this would require at least two new depots
  
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• Newham to get its museum back after 30 years with new heritage centre

  17-02-2026 07:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  More than thirty years after Newham closed its local museum, a replacement is set to open in Canning Town following a £2.7 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The council is currently converting the Grade II-listed Old Library into the Newham Heritage Centre, and the grant will assist with that work and ensure it can house Newham Council’s historic archives.
  As part of that work, the borough’s museum collection will also go on display for the first time in ov
  
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