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  1. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    A day in the life of a Welcome Host volunteer

    3 December 2021, 2 minute read

    Find out how Thomas James, one of our brilliant volunteers, prepares for a long day working at the Museum as a Welcome Host.

    A man on his wheelchair poses next to a tube train in the museum
  2. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Routemaster: A design icon

    29 November 2021, 2 minute read

    Museum Depot volunteer Grahame Bath talks about one of his favourite design icons in our collection, the Routemaster bus.

    Routemaster double deck motor bus bonnet No RM1737, 1963
  3. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    A trip to the new Battersea Power Station Underground station

    19 November 2021, 1 minute read

    Museum volunteer Thomas James shares a few snaps taken at Battersea Power Station on the opening day of the Northern Line Extension.

    A man in wheelchair poses next to a Tube sign at Battersea Power Station
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    15 November 2021, 2 minute read

    How do you show what it's like to travel on the London Underground in a theatre? Award-winning Designer Bunny Christie reveals how they have recreated Christopher Boone's adventurous Tube journey from Paddington to Willsden Junction in the upcoming production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

    Two actors on stage with a map of London visible in the background
  5. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    All of London - Memories of a Museum volunteer inspired by our Connections map

    27 August 2021, 2 minute read

    Welcome Host volunteers Thomas and Bill talk about one of their favourite objects in the Museum, the Connections map on the ground floor.

    A family looks at a giant map of London
  6. Blog category
    •  Collections
    •  Volunteers

    On the Surface - London by bus and river

    By Nick Gill, 6 July 2021, 2 minute read

    Discover posters from our collection promoting travel by bus and river from 1945 to today, with Museum Depot volunteer guide Nick Gill.

    Psotrer depicting a busy river bank
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    •  Collections
    •  Volunteers

    The Underground’s Steam Survivor

    7 June 2021, 2 minute read

    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.

    Detail of a steam locomotive with the words Metropolitan Railway 23
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    •  Volunteers

    'Music in London' by Hans Unger and Eberhard Schulze (1964)

    By Nick Gill, 4 June 2021, 2 minute read

    Depot 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.

    Poster depicting a bearded man playing a classical piano