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The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating to the heritage of London's transport, as well as conserving and explaining the history of it. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collections of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all ...
In the late 1980s, London Underground began commissioning artists as part of a programme to fill unsold advertising space with artwork. [8] The "Art on the Underground" series was usually focused on locations that could be reached by Underground. Posters were also available for purchase at the London Transport Museum, bringing in additional ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
The London Underground 1938 Stock was a London Underground tube stock design. A total of 1,121 cars were built by Metro-Cammell and Birmingham RC&W.An additional 173 cars were added to the fleet by the end of 1953, comprising 91 new builds (the 1949 Tube Stock), 76 conversions from Pre-1938 Tube Stock or 1935 Tube Stock, and six unconverted cars of 1935 Tube Stock, [1] and the stock was used ...
One locomotive, No. 5 John Hampden, is preserved as a static display at London Transport Museum [10] and another, No. 12 Sarah Siddons, has been used for heritage events, most recently in January 2019 running in conjunction with Metropolitan Railway Locomotive No. 1 on steam excursions to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of the ...
Donated by Transport for London to the Royal Greenwich UTC on 28 June 2013. [16] C77 Stock: 5720: Static feature at a Plumcroft Primary School playground, Plumstead. [17] C77 Stock: 5721: Static exhibit at the London Transport Museum's Acton depot. [15]
London Transport Museum Photographic Archive. Example of Johnston font used on a bus stop; Edward Johnston working at Lincoln's Inn Field; Edward Johnston Collection held by the Crafts Study Centre and hosted online by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft holds many Edward Johnston works and personal effects
Afterwards the latter was stored at Ash Grove bus garage before moving to the London Transport Museum's Acton depot. [ 2 ] The public consultation results show that the green prototype was the favoured, and provided the core design basis for the 1992 Stock that was built for London Underground 's Central line and for the Class 482 which was ...