Blog posts
Georgia Morley introduces the Celebrating Britain's Transport Textile project, exploring the use of moquette on the transport system since the 1920s
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Our Q stock story – Restoring three rare 1930s Underground train cars
By Katariina Mauranen, , 3 minute readKatariina Mauranen explores our ambitious project to restore three Q stock cars into operational condition and the history of these unique trains
Our Documentary Curator Susanna Cordner invites to our next Late Debate focusing on the innovative solution to reclaim spaces across the Capital.
We take a look back at five years of the Battle Bus project, restoring a vintage bus and a community programme exploring the war
In our final Friday Late of the Poster Girls series we're celebrating the essence of the exhibition, with a programme of voices representing a diverse range of talent and female empowerment, through lectures, our makers market, tours and 1980s inspired workshops.
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Exploring London Transport Museum with Skanska engineer, Emma Watkins
, 2 minute readLondon Transport Museum's volunteer Carrie Long talks to Emma Watkins, site engineer at Skanska, about the past, present and future of engineering in London.
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Spiral escalator: An engineering wonder ahead of its time
By Laura Sleath,In 1988, the rusty remains of an engineering experiment were found buried at the bottom of a lift shaft at Holloway Road station. Laura Sleath explores more about this engineering wonder ahead of its time.
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Poster Girls - Mabel Lucie Attwell (1879-1964)
, 1 minute readDavid Bownes, co-curator of our Poster Girls exhibition, talks about one of the illustrators featured in the exhibition, Mabel Lucie Attwell.