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  1. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    Farewell, Baker Street - TfL's Lost Properties Office is on the move

    , 2 minute read

    After 86 years, Transport for London's Lost Property Office is moving from its historic location at 200 Baker Street. What better time to explore the building's nooks and crannies, filled with lost treasures from the mundane to the bizarre, before they are moved to new premises.

  2. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Untangling the Tracks: communicating change

    , 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
  3. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Exhibitions

    Thameslink: A history through the city

    By Laura Sleath, , 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
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Posters

    Prize for Illustration Notes from a winner - By Julia Allum

    A note from Julia on the process behind winning the Silver award for her poster design, and what she has been up to since.

    A photo of Julia holding her winning poster, with the three parakeets adorned on roundels
  5. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Battle Bus

    Battle Bus project 2014-2018

    We take a look back at five years of the Battle Bus project, restoring a vintage bus and a community programme exploring the war

    Four vintage buses on the Covent Garden Piazza
  6. Blog category
    •  Battle Bus

    Forget-me-not

    Discover our new installation and meet the artist behind the forget-me-not display in the Museum, commissioned to remember the thousands of transport workers involved in the First World War

    A display of forget-me-nots inside the museum
  7. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Museum Lates

    Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins

    , 2 minute read

    London Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.

    A model showing workers building the first Underground tunnels
  8. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)

    , 1 minute read

    David Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.

    detail of a poster showing a girl and boy surrounded by toys