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- Next to the Blackwall Tunnel – the East India Docks Commemoration Plaque
- A curiosity about the local area maps at St Pancras Station
- Weekly round-up of London’s railway transport news
- A bronze frieze of London’s Underground commuters
- Tube Maps made from Lego go on display in stations
- Rare chance to ride a vintage tube train around the Kennington Loop
- Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome Collection
- Olympic Park opens in 47, or 49, or 50 days time at midnight
- Visit the Salvation Army Museum
- Hidden for 100 years – the Cheapside Hoard goes on display again
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Lets sponsor a tube station!
Posted on June 3, 2013 | 6 CommentsThat perennial weed the rebanding of tube stations by sponsors has popped up again and been swiftly dismissed by London Underground as unworkable. -
A look at the Crossrail tunnels under Oxford Street
Posted on June 2, 2013 | 7 CommentsAs anyone who has used the area over the past few years will have known, much of the area around Tottenham Court Road tube station is a huge Crossrail construction site. -
Fire Brigade Dissect a White Whale in Covent Garden
Posted on June 1, 2013 | 1 CommentIt is almost impossible now to go to the West End in the evenings without seeing a white whale squeezing its way through the narrow streets. -
A rare oasis of calm in Camden Town
Posted on May 27, 2013 | 2 CommentsCamden town, that bustling heart of youth and arts has a seemingly rather overlooked oasis of peace and calm - sitting right next to the huge Sainsburys. -
Canoeing Along the Thames in the Dark
Posted on May 25, 2013 | 2 CommentsDotted along the Thames are a number of rowing clubs for those of a watery inclination, but while they are perfect for regular rowers and wannabe regular rowers, it seems there is a limited opportunity for people who want a one-off chance to paddle along the river. -
Goodbye Russett
Posted on May 24, 2013 | 14 CommentsOne day, you arrived. Scared and seemingly abandoned by your former owners, patched up a bit by the cat shelter and put on display in a noisy room full of strangers. -
The British Library explores the dark arts of Propaganda
Posted on May 19, 2013 | No CommentsA new exhibition has opened at the British Library that looks at the art and effect of Propaganda as perpetuated by governments across the world. We all know what propaganda is though - don't we? -
A look around an empty office block in Victoria
Posted on May 12, 2013 | 3 CommentsEven by the standards of the era it was built in, Selborne House -- that sat opposite the Army and Navy store on Victoria Street -- was a masterpiece of bland office design -- a brown monolithic slab of drab. -
Steam trains to run along part of the Central Line in June
Posted on May 11, 2013 | 2 CommentsTickets for another of the London Underground's 150th anniversary events have just gone on sale, and include some pretty decent prices for trips in a luxuriously restored Victorian steam carriage. -
How to get tickets to the 2013 Last Night of the Proms
Posted on May 5, 2013 | 2 CommentsProm season is starting soon and it’s already time to dust off an envelope and postage stamp in order to apply for tickets to attend the Last Night of the Proms.