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Campaign for Gromit to build HS2.
Clip of the iconic train chase sequence from ‘THE WRONG TROUSERS’ to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary.
#WrongTrousersAt30
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Compare the
#DailyMail
front cover photo and the stock photo they used - and notice anything about the people they cropped out?
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There were days when the pandemic was really quite weird.
Four years ago...
A police van is going around peckham rye blaring “no sunbathing... exercise only”
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Apparently sitting on a chair at home means you're a couch potato, but sitting on a chair in an office doesn't.
🥔 New flexible working rules risk turning Britain into a ‘couch potato nation’
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The only "no go areas" in London that a Londoner would understand is Angus Steakhouse.
There are definitely "no-go" areas in London and Birmingham. It should not be a controversial comment.
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Flat for sale at the top of the St Pancras station building.
BRB - just buying some lottery tickets.
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Today is the last day of 2023 when sunset takes place after 6pm (at 6:01pm).
It won't set after 6pm again until 12th March 2024.
Winter approaches.
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A dead rabbit has been hanging on a wall at Watford Junction station for the past 30 years.
Rabbit was an early mobile phone network that opened in May 1992, but closed less than 2 years later in Dec 1993, when its owner replaced it with the Orange mobile network (now
@EE
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Just your average 2-bed art-deco flat in central London with an underground bunker.
A WHAT?!?!
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A website full of control panels, and nothing but control panels.
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This so looks like a photo from the 1980s of a British Airways steward receiving the employee of the year award.
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Never ceases to amaze me that people think the mechanical engineers repairing the Central line trains were told to down tools and taken out of the workshop so they can work in head office renaming the Overground.
Still delays on the entire Cental Line “due to a shortage of trains”, but not to worry - At least now we have the ‘Windrush’ & ‘suffragette’ lines thanks to
@SadiqKhan
’s frugal use of £6m+
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Person on BBC News worrying about the M25 closure affecting people going to school on Monday.
If you're using the M25 to get to school, then there's a whole different set of problems to worry about.
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The thing I love about cycle lanes is how much more accessible they make cities for everyone, not just cyclists
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Two people, who just happen to be the same age as the owners of the Crooked House pub, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson.
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This is not the Elizabeth line train you are expecting to see.
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Yesterday I was in Germany, on a visit to a giant model railway set - the huge Siemens Mobility train testing centre -- to ride in one of their new Piccadilly line trains which will be carrying passengers from 2025.
Quick video from the sidelines...
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Saw this awful LTN at the weekend - people sitting around drinking coffee instead of driving cars and absolutely no where to park.
Ghastly.
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Was on the edge of the M25 on Saturday, where there's protests objecting to plans to build homes on the derelict Wisley Airfield.
Taylor Wimpey wants to build 1,700 homes plus shops & a school.
Locals are worried about loss of trees (it's barren) and farmland (it's an airport)
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National Service was abolished in June 1963 (mainly because the Army hated it), so you'd have to be at least 79 years old to have been involved.
The three ladies in the photo are talking about something abolished so long ago that not even their own fathers would have done it.
'Gen Z think they can do nothing and get benefits - bring back National Service': Pensioners slam 'lazy and entitled' work-shy youngsters who moan they can't get jobs because Covid left them without social skills
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This amazing building in Belgium has just been uncovered after restoration.
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A pensioner day trip to Edgware to protest against young people owning a home.
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But how does being a Bishop and a Knight at the same time affect how he moves in a game of chess?
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His Master's American Candy (aka, the former HMV flagship store on Oxford Street)
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Have you ever wondered if there's any significance in the design of a Custard Cream biscuit?
A biscuity thread...
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British Library releases 18,000 maps and views for free
The British Library has released a huge archive of nearly 18,000 maps that have been digitised and are available for free - with no copyright restrictions.
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Today I learned that Elizabeth line trains can overtake each other in the tunnels
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Getting ready for the annual test firing of London's Laser Defence Shield.
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The UK government website is advertising careers as an astronaut.
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Your occasional reminder that the big pillars at South Kensington tube station aren't holding up the roof - they're the supports for a 1970s hotel that was planned to go above the station.
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Vintage image of London - Canary Wharf before the skyscrapers arrived
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Want to see 120 London Underground stations as 3D drawings?
Of course you do!
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Whatever you do, you do NOT want to click through to see the interiors of this house that's up for sale.
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Pesto jars recalled following nuts concerns - includes own labels from Waitrose and Aldi.
...middle class England wakes up horrified to learn that Waitrose and Aldi get their pesto from the same supplier.
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This house on the outskirts of Cambridge hasn't changed since the 1970s.
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"This large mansion is a short drive to the local Elizabeth line service into central London.
"Does it come with a garage?"
"Oh, yes, there's a large garage."
"How many cars fit in it?"
"Cars?"
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Peter Bone MP is pretty disgusting, saying in Parliament that the public don't care about Chris Pincher assaulting members of staff.
Fortunately, he's wrong about that.
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Two years ago, this tube station didn't exist - and now it's buzzing with commuters heading to work.
Build it and they will come.
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Tickets Alert: Vintage tube train trips to Heathrow Airport
➡️
A tube train built in 1938 and restored to its art-deco original interior will be running between central London and Heathrow Aiport next month.
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The recently refurbished Exchange Square - behind Liverpool Street station.
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I do so love these GLC era signs at the Southbank Centre - hope they never get removed.
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On this day in 1863 - the London Underground was born, with the first trains between Paddington and Farringdon.
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In totally unrelated news, all shops in central london close down due to lack of staff, offices and streets are now filthy due to lack of cleaners and all the hospitals have run out of nurses.
Ok, I’ll raise you. There should be no social housing in this area.
This is the most expensive real estate in the country. It should be for people who have worked to afford it.
People living off the state should live in outer London or the Home Counties.
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Developer tries to convert pub into flats.
Council says they can't.
Developer demolishes pub hoping to get away with a token fine.
Council tells developer to build an exact replica of the pub.
Pub opens next month.
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Still not used to the magnificent transformation of Strand into a pedestrian delight.
And hope I never do lose the delight of walking along here.
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Black cab drivers getting fined for breaking the law don't accept that they broke the law, but blame "sneaky cyclists" who are reporting them for breaking the law.
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According to TfL, 230 contactless/Oyster cards have been used to make a whole Superloop journey in the same day (all seven Superloop buses). Some cardholders have done this more than once in the last month.
Bus Nerds 🤓
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Can't help thinking these switched-off advertising panels in the Crossrail tunnel makes this look like a corridor on a spaceship.
All we need are some stars drifting past, and someone wearing a red shirt.
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Vintage image of London - Canary Wharf before the skyscrapers arrived
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This is a very rare photo - shows the original Canary Wharf DLR station, which was demolished before the line even opened, when plans were changed to turn an area planned to be mainly low-rise offices into the towers we have today.
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This is going to be "fun".
Developer gets permission to build two blocks of flats.
Developer builds flats to a different design and starts selling homes in flats.
Council issues order to demolish the blocks and rebuilding them correctly.
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@Jbf403
In the grand scheme of things, it's not that large a development, and if right next to bus and railway hub and shopping centre isn't an ideal place to build, where is?
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A side profile of the Elizabeth line's core tunnels showing their relationship to other tunnels in the area.
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The toilets inside the MI5 building in Millbank are being refurbished, and as a listed building, that requires a planning application.
So for you spooks out there, this is what the loos inside the MI5 headquarters look like.
Exciting ;)
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Someone has filed an FOI with TfL asking if they have ever considered demolishing Blackfriars Bridge, Tower Bridge, and Lambeth Bridge in order to promote swimming and/or standup paddleboarding.
Which is pretty niche as requests go.
The answer, by the way is... No.
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To avoid complaints that money is being spent in the south, they're redefined the entire country as "the north".
Can't think of any other reason why Plymouth is on a map of Network North upgrades.
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Important information for people buying train tickets from Charing Cross Station.
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An FOI has been filed asking how much the pride flags at London Bridge station have cost.
You know what which other seasonal decorations get FOI cost demand requests?
None of them.
Only Pride gets homophobic FOIs demanding to know how much of "my taxpayers money" is spent.
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An Indian TV company wants to use some of my photos and is "pleased to inform you that we would not be charging you"
They expected me to expect to pay to give them my photos!
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Tweeting from the Northern line where we now have working 4g phone signal.
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I can't help but admire the chutzpah of a NIMBY lobby group called Keep Kensal Green, when the plot of land they want to keep green is this former gasworks industrial site next to the railway.
Up for permission for housing development.
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NIMBIES: Don't build housing until you have the infrastructure to support it.
Also NIMBIES: Building infrastructure before the houses is a waste of money.
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Star Trek fans might want to visit "Picardilly Circus" tube station today or tomorrow.
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It's been confirmed that the government's decision to change HS2's plans for Euston station "was made without prior engagement with TfL or the GLA"
More crayons please.
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The "Dangermouse postbox" on Baker Street has been yarnbombed.
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When he was younger, Charles Dickens spent a couple of years working at TGI Fridays.
It was the worst of times.
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In July 1993, a brand new railway called Crossrail was announced.
At 6:30am on 24th May 2022, a brand new railway called the
#Elizabethline
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The MSG Sphere in Stratford -- a huge globe concert hall with a video screen covering -- after a 5-hour meeting this evening, planning has been GRANTED by the London Legacy Development Corporation
However, approval for the external advertising will be reviewed after 5 years.
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Four FOIs have been filed how much money TfL spent on Pride month this year.
You know the FOIs that are never filed? The ones asking how much TfL spent on Easter, Halloween, Christmas, NYE etc -- it's only ever asked about Pride.
And sadly, that's why Pride still matters.
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And in the Gospel of St Marketing, the peoples of the land of kitchen, having worshipped the everlasting sign of the Golden Syrup, shall turn unto a new god, a new logo is revealed, and great lamentation was heard throughout the land.
Oh, syrup, why hast thou forsaken us?
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It's almost difficult to remember how stupidly narrow the pavement at Bank Junction in the City of London once was compared to how it is today.
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This is going to be the best community note...
We are selling our baby trebuchet. We only used it a couple of times. PM me for a quote.
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Cabinet installer thinking...
Shall we put the cabinet parallel to the road to minimise its impact - or shall we rotate it so that it blocks a third of the pavement.
Spotted on Kensington Church Street.
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Company makes acrylic monitor stands - then realises there's a better use for them.
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Overheard outside Canary Wharf station:
"We're not catching the tube"
"Influencers don't use the tube"
...the London Underground, it's good enough for globally-famous celebrities, but not two-bit influencers.
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Cup anonymised to protect its privacy.
Enjoy flat whites?
If you leave rubbish near the river, there's a good chance it will end up in the water.
We're all responsible for protecting the Thames.
Find litter picks near you 🗑️ 🚯
#London
#Kent
#Essex
#RiverThames
#ThamesEstuary
#PortOfLondon
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I'm appalled at plans to build 2,500 homes near Faversham.
Should be 25,000 homes in towers, and include a new railway station with park-n-ride parking right next to the M2 motorway.
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This is fun - how far (roughly) can you drive or cycle from the centre of London in 30 minutes.
Via:
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Vintage image of London - The Cutty Sark arriving at Greenwich in 1954
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Whenever I hear that HS2 is just for businesspeople, I sigh and point out that most intercity travel is leisure.
Now I have an updated chart :)
Source - Network Rail Property survey.
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Farringdon station this morning - I might use this photo every time people say we don't need offices or transport investments because people work from home now.
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On this day in 1924 -- the new tunnels between Euston and Camden Town opened.
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Councillors refuse permission to replace a derelict office with a block of flats right next to the railway station -- to protect the street scene.
It's opposite a large car park and offices.
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Local Government Policy: We want to encourage more walking and less driving.
Local Government Action: We'll clear the roads of snow for motorists but won't touch the pavements.
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