Ian Visits

The surprising reason for London Underground’s new heritage signs

The surprising reason for London Underground’s new heritage signs. You might have seen some new signs popping up around the tube stations recently showing off London Underground’s heritage. Source: The surprising reason for London Underground’s new heritage signs – IanVisits

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Rangers House – the art collection you’ve probably never seen

Rangers House – the art collection you’ve probably never seen. At the top end of Greenwich Park, away from the tourists is a grand house, called a lodge, and inside is one of the UK’s finest collections of art. And until last week, not the easiest or most obvious one to see. Source: Rangers House

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Hackney Wick’s brutalist new London Overground station opens

Hackney Wick’s brutalist new London Overground station opens The Southbank Centre has come to Hackney Wick in the form of a stunning new London Overground station, with vast expanses of wood shuttering concrete offset with weathering steel. Source: Hackney Wick’s brutalist new London Overground station opens – IanVisits

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Unbuilt London: The “figure of eight” tube line

Unbuilt London: The “figure of eight” tube line. There should be a major train junction under Oxford Circus acting as the centre point of a large double-loop tube line, had plans shown off in 1988 gone ahead. The £2.3 billion figure-of-eight tube line would have largely doubled the capacity of much of the existing Circle

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