Legacies: London Transport’s Caribbean workforce

In the 1950s and 60s, London Transport, struggling to recruit staff locally, turned to the Caribbean, and in doing so changed not just London's transport, but London itself.

Tours of Aldwych’s disused tube station resume

The disused London Underground station at Aldwych is to once again open its doors to let people down and see this most famous of abandoned tube stations.

Tickets Alert: Tours of disused London Underground stations

Tours of disused parts of the London Underground will resume in the New Year for the first time since March 2020, and tickets go on sale this coming Friday (3rd Dec).

Now you can drink from a London Underground moquette mug

For London Transport fans, there's now a range of coffee cups that come decorated with moquette patterns.

Transport Museum restarting its disused tube station tours

On hold during the lockdown, the London Transport Museum is to restart tours of disused parts of the London Underground from next month.

A lot of moquette socks

The London Transport Museum has been selling transport moquette socks for a while, but now they've brought out a bumper pack of socks.

Kingsway tram tunnel to start public tours in August

Rarely opened to the public since it closed in 1952, there will be tours of the Kingsway tram subway in Holborn this summer.

Weekly late nights at the Transport Museum

Over the next few weeks, the monthly late night opening at the London Transport Museum will be a weekly affair.

90 year old tube poster reappearing on the London Underground

It probably feels like its been decades since many of us have travelled on the tube, and that effect will be magnified when you do, as there will be a vintage poster from 1931 appearing in the stations

More virtual disused tube station tours announced

With visits to the disused tube stations in person on hold, a new batch of video tours has been announced by the London Transport Museum.

Transport Museum depot to open for Half-Term

The Acton Depot, where the London Transport Museum stores most of its trains, buses and ephemera is having a week-long Half-Term opening for families.

Virtual tours of the disused Aldwych tube station

New virtual tours of Aldwych tube station have been announced, including areas not normally included in the physical tours that used to run in pre-lockdown times.

More moquette masks from the London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum has released two more face mask collections. They're proving popular with even the Mayor of London often spotted out and about wearing one of the museum's masks at times.

Half price tours of disused tube stations

The London Transport Museum is offering a "Black Friday" discount of 50 percent off their disused station tours which take visitors on a digital tour of subterranean London from the comfort of their sofas.

New moquette socks from the London Transport Museum

Just in time for that perennial Christmas present, a pair of socks, a new range of moquette socks has been launched by the London Transport Museum shop.

Exhibition – London Transport at War

How London managed to keep its public transport networks running during wartime is the topic of a new permanent exhibition at the London Transport Museum.

Ten London venues get £22 million in funding

Ten venues across London have received £22.3 million in government funding, as part of a wider £75 million funding package for the cultural sector.

London Underground branded face coverings

The London Transport Museum has jumped on the bandwagon for fancy face masks and is selling London transport themed versions.

Tickets Alert: Virtual tours of disused tube stations

Two disused tube stations that have never been part of the disused tube station tours ware to be part of a new series of virtual video tours from the London Transport Museum.

Tickets Alert: Transport Museum – late night openings

The London Transport Museum has announced that it is going to be opening later in the evenings every Thursday in September and October.

London tube map based on the stars in the skies

A variant on the classic London Underground tube map has been released, with all the stations renamed after astronomical objects and events.

Housing development planned for London Transport Museum’s Acton depot

The Acton depot which houses the bulk of the London Transport Museum's collection could need to be rebuilt if plans to redevelop the site for housing go ahead.

Put a tube train’s treadplate in your doorway

Fancy stepping over the threshold of your home with a genuine London Underground door treadplate?

Colour in your own Moquette

You can now print off plain sheets of London Transport moquette and while away the hours colouring them in.