day-2-chapter-3-royal-borough-of-greenwich-london-boroughs-of-tower-hamlets-and-newham-city-of-london-and-london-boroughs-of-southwark-and-camden

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Stratford International, a station on HS1 line (and also the terminus of a DLR branch). As the name suggests, no international services stops there (and it would be rather redundant, St Pancras is really close). The station is however served by Southestern trains operating on HS1. You can change at Ebbsfleet or Ashford (or St Pancras, but, y'know) to the international trains. And the line is nicely used by commuters, who go there from Kent, take one stop to Stratford (or just go through the shopping centre) and there change to a plethora of trains. The station is located near the centre of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. BTW, even during the Olympics they didn't make any international stops there (which would be quite beneficial, imagine having a direct connections to the Olympics site from Liege, Paris or Brussels), because of the Javelin shutter service that ran 8 times per hour between St Pancras and Ebbsfleet. That a HS train every 7.5 minutes, it's like S-Bahn here in Gdansk where I live.

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The elevated walkway (with this Japanese installation that was removed sometime between February and September 2020, according to the Google Maps) is a part of the City of London Pedway Scheme, a pedway network that was meant to transform the pedestrian traffic flows in the City of London in a modernist way (a.i. get the pedestians out of the way of moving cars). A blueprint from 1947 envisaged a network of first-floor walkways that would connect buildings across the City. It was put into effect mainly from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, and had been largely mothballed by the 1980s. This is one of the parts of the system, the one that was kept around the old Stock Exchange Tower. As first-floor access to the Pedway network was put as a requirement into the planning regulations, some building from that era incorporate unused "dead space" at first-floor level and partial walkways that led to dead ends. Buildings that were required to incorporate links to the Pedway included the National Westminster Tower, which incorporated a pedestrian bridge across Bishopsgate that was never used and is now demolished; the Commercial Union building, the Barbican, and Draper's Gardens.

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