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First GBR Anglia trains unveiled as Greater Anglia and c2c merge their fleets

16-07-2026 16:06 via ianvisits.co.uk

Two new GBR-branded trains were side by side at Liverpool Street this morning, showing off the merger of Greater Anglia and c2c rail services.Greater Anglia and c2c are now managed jointly along with Network Rail’s East of England division to create GBR Anglia as a unified organisation.
Merging the passenger and infrastructure functions to form regional operations has already been implemented in the Southeastern and SWR regions, and the aim is to reduce the bureaucratic and contractual red

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Hackers who crippled TfL systems sentenced to more than five years in prison

16-07-2026 14:40 via ianvisits.co.uk

Two teenagers who hacked into Transport for London’s (TfL) computers, causing nearly £30 million in damages, have been jailed for five years and six months after admitting to carrying out the attack.Thalha Jubair, 20, from east London, and Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, both pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court
Apart from the cost to TfL, the cyberattack caused considerable disruption for staff and passengers, as TfL took large swathes of its systems offline while each was inspect

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Free exhibition brings centuries of London’s working people to the streets

16-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

For centuries, images of countless Londoners, both famous and forgotten, have been recorded as they go about their daily work in the capital.And there’s an outdoor exhibition telling the stories of some of those people captured in paintings and photographs. The oldest photo is of William Anthony, a night watchman, taken shortly before he died in 1863, with the most modern being a young man working in a Southwark shoe factory in 1954
There’s the disabled street musician, a lot of ladi

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Crystal Palace’s famous dinosaurs restored to their Victorian glory

16-07-2026 09:11 via ianvisits.co.uk

Crystal Palace’s famous dinosaurs have been removed from Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register following several years of restoration work.
Iguanodon (c) Andy Bate
The multi-million-pound project, jointly delivered by Bromley Council and the Crystal Palace Park Trust, is the largest programme of improvements to the park since the Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire in 1936.
At the heart of the scheme was the restoration of the Grade I listed dinosaur sculptures and the

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London’s Pocket Parks: Moorgate Corner, EC2

16-07-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

This is a recently revamped corner park near Moorgate tube station, sitting next to the site of one of the ancient gates through the Roman Wall.The site of the pocket park was developed by the 1600s as a small cluster of houses and workshops surrounded by roads, and for the next few centuries, very little changed. The buildings were torn down and rebuilt at times, but the layout didn’t change.
Faden’s 1819 revision of R Horwood map
It would probably look the same today, but for WWII

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