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  1. Blog category
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Volunteers

    Working with the Q stock restoration team

    28 March 2023, 2 minute read

    Museum Depot Volunteer Andy Simpson shares his experience working on the restoration of the last remaining 1030s Q stock cars.

    A vintage tube train covered in graffiti
  2. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Exhibitions

    For the love of Carnival

    21 October 2022, 4 minute read

    Shari Royer, designer of the carnival headdress on display in our Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition, reveals the inextricable link between her love for Carnival and her career as a costume designer.

    A person pointing at a feathered headdress on display in a case
  3. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Guest blog

    Leaving a Legacy

    6 May 2022, 2 minute read

    Josh Burrell, Senior Press Officer at TfL, shares insights of his experience as a member of the Advisory Board behind our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce.

    A man standing in front of a screen with words from a poem
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Exhibitions

    Reflections on the making of Sunday's best

    28 February 2022, 2 minute read

    The cast and crew of Sunday's best, one of the films commissioned for our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, reflect on the experience of making the film.

    Close up of a man filming a scene with a hand held camera
  5. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions

    How we made our new exhibition Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce

    By Laura Sleath, 28 January 2022, 2 minute read

    Find out how we developed our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce, working closely with an Advisory Board made up of people of Caribbean heritage, in this blog by Senior Curator Laura Sleath.

    A Black man sits across from another Black man and a White men interviewing him for a job
  6. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Q Stock Restoration
    •  Museum Depot

    Our Q Stock story: one year on

    11 November 2019, 3 minute read

    An update on our Q Stock restoration project by Project Manager Jullian Urry.

    Volunteers working on the inside of a train car
  7. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Untangling the Tracks: communicating change

    22 October 2019, 2 minute read

    Senior Curator Laura Sleath looks at Transport for London's long history of producing posters to keep passengers informed about upgrades to the network. This theme is further explored in our exhibition Untangling the Tracks,

    A young woman looks at posters
  8. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Exhibitions

    Thameslink: A history through the city

    By Laura Sleath, 24 July 2019, 3 minute read

    Our latest exhibition Untangling the Tracks takes a closer look at the Thameslink Programme, a major project to increase capacity, improve connections and provide greater reliability on the Thameslink route. Senior Curator Laura Sleath tells us the history behind the only north-south mainline railway to cross London.

    Print of works on a railway