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• Go behind the scenes at London Transport Museum’s vast Acton depot this April

  12-03-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Next month, there will be one of the occasional open weekends at the London Transport Museum’s large storage warehouse in Acton, and tickets to visit are on sale now.
  Photos from the Transport Museum’s Acton Depot open weekend
  Visitors will be able to discover the Museum’s vast collection of more than 320,000 objects not on display in the Covent Garden Museum – from tiny palm-sized collectables to entire train carriages and old buses.
  April’s event celebrates 120 ye
  
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• Platform 37: Google names its huge King’s Cross HQ as staff prepare to move in

  12-03-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Google’s giant groundscraper of a building, which has been a construction site next to King’s Cross station for longer than most people can remember, is finally getting its first occupants.
  Platform 37 (c) Google
  The building sits alongside King’s Cross station on land that was once a goods yard, and later an extension of the station. It also included the “hotel curve”, a rail tunnel that ran from the mainline station to the Metropolitan line, back when it was thoug
  
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• 200 Years of UCL: A small exhibition packed with big discoveries

  12-03-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  University College London (UCL) is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a small exhibition highlighting some of the university’s most notable discoveries, artefacts and moments from its history.Spread across the campus, most of the displays are concentrated in two locations: beside the famous Jeremy Bentham auto-icon and inside the university’s main Octagon Gallery.
  The Octagon Gallery contains four large display cases filled with an eclectic selection of objects. Some celebrate gr
  
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• Wheel good news: Thameslink bikes help fund skills for adults with learning disabilities

  12-03-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Bicycles abandoned at railway stations are now helping fund training and work experience for adults with learning disabilities.
  The bikes, set to be donated to TAG in Huntingdon, on the back of a flatbed at Great Northern’s depot in Letchworth (c) GTR
  Bikes left behind at Thameslink and Great Northern stations are stored for three months, but if not claimed by the owner, they are delivered to TAG Bikes in Huntingdon, where adults with learning difficulties repair and refurbish them before
  
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• Free Friday performances at the Royal Opera House

  12-03-2026 11:03 via ianvisits.co.uk
  It’s not that well known outside the usual circles, but the Royal Opera House puts on regular free lunchtime performances.
  Paul Hamlyn Hall, Royal Opera House (c) ianVisits
  Artists from The Royal Opera, the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, The Royal Ballet, and a range of guest artists perform at the Royal Opera House roughly twice a month on Friday lunchtimes, free of charge.
  You can’t book tickets as they are allocated on the day, on a first-come, first-served basis. Entry token
  
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