Blog posts
Museum Depot volunteer Grahame Bath talks about one of his favourite design icons in our collection, the Routemaster bus.
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- Volunteers
A trip to the new Battersea Power Station Underground station
, 1 minute readMuseum volunteer Thomas James shares a few snaps taken at Battersea Power Station on the opening day of the Northern Line Extension.
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- Volunteers
All of London - Memories of a Museum volunteer inspired by our Connections map
, 2 minute readWelcome Host volunteers Thomas and Bill talk about one of their favourite objects in the Museum, the Connections map on the ground floor.
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- Collections
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On the Surface - London by bus and river
By Nick Gill, , 2 minute readDiscover posters from our collection promoting travel by bus and river from 1945 to today, with Museum Depot volunteer guide Nick Gill.
Rudi Newman, a Doctor of transport history and London Transport Museum volunteer, talks about one of the highlights in our collection, the Metropolitan Railway steam locomotive No. 23.
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- Collections
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'Music in London' by Hans Unger and Eberhard Schulze (1964)
By Nick Gill, , 2 minute readDepot volunteer guide Nick Gill explores the 1964 poster 'Music in London' by Hans Unger and Eberhard Schulze, one of the thousands of iconic posters in our world-renowned collection of transport posters and artworks.
Thomas, one of our Volunteer Welcome Hosts, talks about one of his favourite Underground maps in our collection and shares his experience as a wheelchair user travelling on the Underground.
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- Contemporary Curators
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A brief history of tran-sports!
By Ellie Miles, , 1 minute readDid you know that London Underground has its own football league? And that London transport sports teams history dates back to the early twentieth century? Contemporary Curator Ellie Miles tells you more in this blog.