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  1. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Energy Garden: Bringing Community Energy to the London Overground

    14 December 2021, 2 minute read

    Energy Garden is a Community Benefit Society that invests in renewable energy infrastructure to support community development. Find out how they help tackle the lack of accessible green space in urban environments by creating community-owned renewable energy and garden initiatives on transport infrastructure across London.

    An allotment on the side of a platform at a London Overground station
  2. Blog category
    •  Young People's Skills Programme
    •  Learning Programmes
    •  Climate Crossroads

    Engineering Change - Takeover Day

    11 November 2021, 2 minute read

    As part of Kids in Museums Takeover Day, on 12 November 2021 children from Wembley Primary School are putting their questions to grown-ups in the transport industry to find out what actions they are taking to help build a greener future. Find out more.

    Three Year 5 boys in school uniform wearing yellow high vis vests writing down ideas
  3. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads
    •  Learning Programmes

    Engineering Change - Meet the Engineers

    4 November 2021, 2 minute read

    Pupils from Wembley Primary School will be putting their questions to grown-ups in the transport industry to find out what actions they are taking to help build a greener future, during a live stream on 12 November 2021, part of our Engineering Change themed week.
    In this blog, we introduce two of the real-world engineers who will be talking to the Year 5 students.

    Engineers wearing high vis jackets on top of scaffolding in a tunnel
  4. Blog category
    •  Climate Crossroads

    How are engineers creating a greener future?

    1 November 2021, 3 minute read

    Discover some of the solutions helping to make our city more sustainable.

    A hydrogen bus on a road lined with trees
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Collections

    Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)

    4 July 2018, 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
  8. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions

    Poster Girls - Dorrit Dekk: The Travel Queen

    15 May 2018, 1 minute read

    David Bownes, Co-Curator of our exhibition Poster Girls, talks about the 'Travel Queen', 1960s designer Dorrit Dekk.

    Illustrations of a various figures in different uniform and costume seen within various roles in London life