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I'm planning a day trip around London for some Cambridge students
who may not know it well. I'm trying to work out an itinerary for
early December, either Friday 5th or Saturday 6th. I've got an
initial list of places or feature to visit or pass through:
DLR
Overground, inc East London, Crystal Palace
Tramlink
Woolwich ferry
New Routemaster
Old Routemaster, H15 or H9
There's a specific reason for including Crystal Palace. Anyone see
anything or anywhere worthwhile I'm overlooking?
Maybe looking a bit to the future, visit the Battersea Power station site,
soon to include the Northern Line extension? Or at least take a ride out
of Victoria, keeping an eye on it. The walk from Vauxhall is quite
interesting, watching the properties that will pay for the extension
shooting up.
Is there anything much to see there? I used to cycle along Battersea Park
Road between Wandsworth and Vauxhall and it was mostly hoardings on derelict
sites.
Gleaming new buildings sprouting up everywhere, including the new US
embassy. It's interesting to do before and after trips: "before" now,
"after" in five years. I did the same with the Olympics site in Stratford,
and it's been fascinating watching the changes.