London Transport Museum closing soon - wanna visit?

[mango5]

This is the one with an open day in October. Was considering visiting. Have you been there?

 

[citydreams]

Not yet. I'll give 'em a phone now.

 

[citydreams]

Well, the bloke on the end of the phone wasn't able to tell me if we could book as a group for the October Open Day (29th October). Also, at the moment it seems that there are no guided tours available as part of the open day so we wouldn't have access to the whole collection.

I've got an email contact I'm going to give a try.

 

[citydreams]

Well, we can't book as a group and they won't give a staff discount.

 

[mango5]

poo

 

[1927]

Never been to Covent Garden,but i did many years ago see much of the collection when it was originally in Clapham.

 

[lang rabbie]

Never been to Covent Garden,but i did many years ago see much of the collection when it was originally in Clapham.

In a former bus garage - now the site of Sainsbury's - along with a lot of what later became the National Railway Museum at York.

Edited to add: image links deleted, as Science Musuem photo library links no longer work directly

Try this link for exterior, this one for interior
and this one for poster

 

[1927]

In a former bus garage along with a lot of what later became the National Railway Museum at York.

Yeah I remember that,in fact one of the things about the museunm in Clapham was a platform ticket machine that took old happennys and you had to buy them from the shop cos they had just been taken out of circulation so i guess it would have been about 1971!

 

[citydreams]

The next guided walk around the London Transport Depot is on Saturday the 26th November, at either 11:00 or 14:00. It costs about a tenner, but there's more open to the public than the open house weekends. Booking in advance is advised.

 

[mango5]

Anyone else up for this?

 

[Maggot]

I'm up for it.

 

[marty21]

we went to the museum at the last bank holiday, alas it was "bob the builder" day, so we were the only people who didn't bring kids....we didn't stay as long as we planned to, we'll go again when there's less little darlings there