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GWR train dedicated to Railway200’s Greatest Gathering

31-07-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

It’s been a year since thousands of people marked the 200th anniversary of the railways at the Greatest Gathering in Derby, and today, a GWR train has been dedicated to the Greatest Gathering.
(c) Alstom
The design – applied to GWR’s Class 800 No. 800012 – pays tribute to the record-breaking festival held at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane Works last August, which saw some 40,000 people turn up to see the world’s largest-ever gathering of historic and modern rolling s

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Tickets Alert: Tours of the Chelsea Pensioners’ private regimental museum

31-07-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Although the Chelsea Pensioners now have a public museum next to their home at the Royal Hospital, they also have an older private museum, which is now available to visit on tours.
Part of the museum in 2010 (c) ianVisits
Led by one of the Chelsea Pensioner Museum Guides, the tour offers a perspective on centuries of military tradition, personal stories, and national heritage.
During your visit, you’ll encounter extraordinary objects and displays, including the Queen’s Parade Chair a

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Tickets Alert: Tours inside the former Carlton Cinema, Essex Road

31-07-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A remarkable building that many people will walk past, itching to see what it looks like inside, now offers occasional tours.This is the former Carlton Cinema on Essex Road, once the largest cinema in the UK, with an interior very much as you would hope if you get a chance to see it.
For a while, as with many ex-cinemas, it was a bingo hall and is now owned by the Gracepoint church, and to their credit, they’re slowly restoring the interior to its original grandeur.
And occasionally, a loc

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How a Victorian tunnel could transform the Tower of London’s famous moat

31-07-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The Tower of London’s moat could be turned into a wildlife-friendly wetland, and all thanks to a Victorian tunnel.
Illustrative view of the West Moat from the causeway between Middle Tower and Byward Tower (c) Grant Associates/Luxigon
The defensive moat was constructed in the 1270s on the orders of King Edward I to replace what had been little more than a partial ditch. The moat remained a water-filled feature until the 1840s, by which time it was more of a sewer, and as it was still conne

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HS2 renegotiates major construction deals to rein in spiralling costs

31-07-2026 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

One of the biggest criticisms of HS2 Railway’s construction contracts has been addressed, with HS2 replacing deals that left taxpayers carrying almost all the financial risk with new agreements designed to reward contractors for delivering the railway on time and on budget.
HS2 tunnel entrance next to the M25 motorway (c) ianVisits
The company says that it has successfully renegotiated contracts with two of the civil engineering joint ventures responsible for more than 100km of the high-sp

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