The museum is pleased to announce that it has been successful in its Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) application to restore Metropolitan Railway First Class ‘Jubilee’ carriage No.353. The Phase 2 decision secures £422,000 of HLF funding, which together with a £150,000 contribution from the London Transport Museum Friends, enables the restoration project and its associated learning programme [...]
London Transport Museum is currently hosting a celebratory event of the transport related work of John Burningham in its new poster parade “John Burningham: Journeys of Imagination”. Along with his historic commissions created for London Transport and other travel companies, visitors can see an entirely new commission created by John Burningham. The poster was originally [...]
On Saturday 1st October, London Transport Museum hosted a fantastic day of workshops to celebrate this year’s Black History Month. Black History Month has been celebrated in the UK since 1987. Its aim is to recognise the contributions of African, Asian and Caribbean people to the economic, cultural and political life in London and the [...]
Did you know that nearly 30% of Transport for London’s workforce are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethic background? Pretty amazing eh? And that further staff come from across Europe, the Commonwealth and North America? Brilliant! With all these nationalities being represented at Transport for London, you can start to imagine how many languages [...]
Today I’m preparing for our Depot Open Weekend at Acton, taking place this Saturday and Sunday. We’ll be exploring lots of engineering things over the weekend, so I’ve been hunting out posters which fit in with the theme. We’ve got a great set of posters by Edward E Hunt, which encouraged staff to work safely in [...]
