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  1. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about Hidden London tours?

    12 July 2023, 5 minute read

    Test your knowledge about our Hidden London tours! When you step into the past and explore behind the scenes of Underground sites, what makes each location different, and what can you expect to see?

    Statue of Sherlock Holmes in profile, wearing deerstalker hat and holding pipe
  2. 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
  3. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the London Underground?

    9 January 2023, 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the London Underground?

  4. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    A day in the life of a Welcome Host volunteer - Depot edition

    2 December 2022, 3 minute read

    Welcome Host volunteer Thomas James shares his experience working at our September Depot Open Days

    Two people smiling while posing in the museum depot
  5. Blog category
    •  Families

    All aboard for Christmas at the Museum

    23 November 2022, 2 minute read

    Find out what's on this Christmas at the Museum

    An adult and a child in the interactive Santa sleigh
  6. Blog category
    •  Families

    The best way to see London’s festive lights and sights

    14 November 2022, 2 minute read

    Discover one of the London's most beloved festive experiences, our Lights and Sights vintage bus tours

    Red Routemaster bus with eyes driving past shops with Christmas trees and a model Grenadier guard
  7. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Underground’s Unlikeliest ‘Ghost’

    9 November 2022, 3 minute read

    Museum Volunteer and Doctor of transport history Rudi Newman reveals the story of one of the few confirmed ‘hauntings’ on the Underground

    A locomotive emerging from a tunnel
  8. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the Elizabeth line?

    16 August 2022, 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the Elizabeth line and its vital statistics, now that London's newest railway is open to the public?

    Elizabeth line route map