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  1. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about Hidden London tours?

    12 July 2023, 5 minute read

    Test your knowledge about our Hidden London tours! When you step into the past and explore behind the scenes of Underground sites, what makes each location different, and what can you expect to see?

    Statue of Sherlock Holmes in profile, wearing deerstalker hat and holding pipe
  2. 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
  3. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the London Underground?

    9 January 2023, 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the London Underground?

  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Blog category
    •  Quiz

    Quiz: How much do you know about the Elizabeth line?

    16 August 2022, 5 minute read

    How much do you know about the history of the Elizabeth line and its vital statistics, now that London's newest railway is open to the public?

    Elizabeth line route map
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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
  8. 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