Museum Meals: London Transport Museum
Covent Garden isn’t short of places to eat, but a new one has arrived in the revamped Transport Museum cafe/bar, Canteen.
Covent Garden isn’t short of places to eat, but a new one has arrived in the revamped Transport Museum cafe/bar, Canteen.
Tis the season to wear Christmas jumpers, and of course, the best one to wear this year will be covered in transport icons.
A hidden series of tunnels and lift shafts lie out of sight under Piccadilly Circus, and now tours are offered of these hidden spaces.
More tours of hidden parts of the London Underground have been announced for next year, and they’re adding Morgate to the list of venues.
There’s a display in the Transport Museum of roundels used by TfL, but one of them shouldn’t be there.
Released to tie in with an exhibition of the same name, this book is a picture rich journey through some of the disused and hidden spaces on the London Underground.
There’s a chance next month to visit a part of the Jubilee line rarely seen – the overrun tunnels that run beyond Charing Cross station towards Aldwych.
As you step through the familiar terracotta frontage of an old tube station it’s difficult to believe you’re two floors above ground, and not deep under it.
It’s a curious thing, Moquette, that hard wearing fabric in bold designs that seems to spark strong passions in people. Is it the design, the familiarity, the heritage, the links with London Transport?
Alongside the design of the stations, London Underground’s posters heritage is justly world-famous.
A relief from the prices that steam trains have to charge for trips, as a 1950s vintage trains offers affordable runs along part of the Metropolitan line in September.
There will be a chance to go behind the scenes at Piccadilly Circus tube station as part of the expanding Hidden London tours from the London Transport Museum.
Following the success of the large glowing tube roundels sold by the London Transport Museum, they’ve launched a smaller version as well.
Following the “sold out in one day” success of the District line moquette socks, the Transport Museum has more socks in stock.
Next weekend (22nd-23rd June) there will be a chance to see a steam train running along part of the District line as part of its 150th anniversary.
The London Transport Museum has put high resolution images of over 500 artefacts and artworks from its heritage collection onto Google’s Arts & Culture platform.
A new exhibition is looking at the recent substantial works to upgrade the Thameslink lines so that a mainline railway can, in places offer tube-train like services.
One hundred posters has gone on display at the Transport Museum, and one of them could go on to become an official tube poster.
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