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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Blog category
    •  Guest blog
    •  Exhibitions

    For the love of Carnival

    21 October 2022, 4 minute read

    Shari Royer, designer of the carnival headdress on display in our Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce exhibition, reveals the inextricable link between her love for Carnival and her career as a costume designer.

    A person pointing at a feathered headdress on display in a case
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    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    London Transport at War: Recruitment Posters from the First World War

    By Nick Gill, 12 August 2022, 3 minute read

    Find out how poster commisions by the the Underground Group contributed to recruitment propaganda at the beginning of the First World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.

    Poster depicting soldiers marching through ruined buildings
  6. Blog category
    •  Volunteers

    Happy Volunteers' Week 2022!

    1 June 2022, 2 minute read

    Our Museum volunteers contribute a huge amount of time, energy, enthusiasm, skills and expertise to everything we do, ensuring our visitors have a fantastic time when they visit us in Covent Garden and Acton. This Volunteers' Week we're saying a huge Thank You to our volunteers and shining a light on their contributions.

    Museum volunteer helping visitors
  7. Blog category
    •  Exhibitions
    •  Guest blog

    Leaving a Legacy

    6 May 2022, 2 minute read

    Josh Burrell, Senior Press Officer at TfL, shares insights of his experience as a member of the Advisory Board behind our exhibition, Legacies: London Transport's Caribbean Workforce.

    A man standing in front of a screen with words from a poem
  8. Blog category
    •  Volunteers
    •  Collections

    The Art of the Poster - London Transport at War: Second World War

    By Nick Gill, 21 April 2022, 3 minute read

    A look at wartime posters commissioned by London Transport during the Second World War, with Museum Depot volunteer Nick Gill.

    Illustration of a man, woman and child in a field