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.
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Transport Museum offer for ianVisits readers
Tis the season to wear Christmas jumpers, and of course, the best one to wear this year will be covered in transport icons.
Go behind the scenes of Piccadilly Circus tube station
A hidden series of tunnels and lift shafts lie out of sight under Piccadilly Circus, and now tours are offered of these hidden spaces.
Tickets Alert: Tours of the hidden parts of Moorgate tube station
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.
The roundel that got cancelled
There’s a display in the Transport Museum of roundels used by TfL, but one of them shouldn’t be there.
Book review: Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground
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.
Tickets Alert: Train trip into the Jubilee line’s overrun tunnels
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.
Discover a disused London Underground station in Covent Garden
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.
A book about London Underground’s famous Moquette
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?
London Underground posters – Special offer for ianVisits readers
Alongside the design of the stations, London Underground’s posters heritage is justly world-famous.
Tickets Alert: Affordable vintage train trips
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.
Tickets Alert: Behind the scenes at Piccadilly Circus tube station
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.
Holy mini glowing tube roundels Batman!
Following the success of the large glowing tube roundels sold by the London Transport Museum, they’ve launched a smaller version as well.
Moquette socks are back in stock
Following the “sold out in one day” success of the District line moquette socks, the Transport Museum has more socks in stock.
See a Steam Train on the London Underground next weekend
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.
London Transport Museum makes hi-res photos available online
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.
Transport Museum looks at how Thameslink untangled the tracks
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.
Future tube posters go on display
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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