Where are the women in London Transport?
The London Transport Museum is looking for ladies — as part of a history project.
The London Transport Museum is looking for ladies — as part of a history project.
The London Transport Museum has announced a new batch of tours in its Hidden London series of disused parts of the London Underground.
A train that hasn’t been seen on the London Underground since 1971 could make a return if plans to restore a collection of Q-Stock carriages can be completed.
The disused London Underground station at Aldwych is to once again open its doors to let people down and see this most famous of abandoned tube stations.
A huge shed packed full of old tube trains, buses, trams, and floors of railway ephemera, this is the Acton depot used by the London Transport Museum to store everything that wont fit into the museum.
The 1980s, an era of big hair, big shoulder pads and big mobile phones, but also a transport network at its lowest point in decades, with smoking still allowed, rubbish strewn platforms, and broken chocolate bar vending machines.
This weekend, there will be a “flash sale” offering annual passes to the London Transport Museum for just £10 per person.
What better for the tube geek than to drift off to sleep with the comforting glow of a London Underground roundel keeping the monsters away.
A series of WW2 tunnels under Clapham that were later used as a short term hotel for Windrush arrivals are being opened up for tours.
The occasional tours behind the scenes of disused tunnels and stations are set to resume shortly, with a new addition to the mix for this year.
Details of this spring’s opening of the Transport Museum’s Acton depot have been announced, giving people a chance to go into the overflow site which is only open three a year.
The Hidden London series of tours of disused parts of the London Underground is largely sold out, but still has some tickets left for the Clapham deep level shelters.
The London Transport Museum has announced a fresh series of tours of disused tube tunnels and buildings, with tickets going on sale next week.
Back in the days before buses came in every color called red, London had pirate buses that were coloured chocolate.
A new exhibition has opened that celebrates the often unsung heroines of London Transport’s poster heritage — the female artists.
A train that hasn’t moved for nearly 50 years could be about to make a dramatic return to the London Underground — the Q-Stock is returning.
This weekend is a chance to go inside the Transport Museum’s overflow depot at Acton Town, where they store all the goodies that would never be able to fit into their Covent Garden base.
Later this month there will be an occasional open weekend at the Transport Museum’s overflow depot at Acton.
Barely noticed by the people who use it, sitting directly above Highgate tube station is an entire abandoned railway station, now slowly being reclaimed by nature.
The London Transport Museum has announced a fresh series of tours of disused tube tunnels and buildings, with tickets going on sale next week.
The annual exhibition of new posters by today’s illustrators has opened and you’ll be seeing three of them in tube stations shortly.
Later this month the last remaining D stock train running on the London Underground will make its final trips as a public train service.
Following on from the (sold out) Modernist tours, here are three more London Underground architecture tours that have gone on sale today.
If the London Underground came in flavours, what would they be? A chocolate firm has tried to answer the question, by creating some bars and slapping a tube logo on the packaging.