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London Transport Museum |
WC2E 7BB London, Great Britain (UK) (Greater London) |
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Covent Garden Piazza
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| Floor area | only roughly guessed: 3 000 m² / 32 292 ft² |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Transport in general
- Passenger cars
- Trams
- Busses
- Carriages
- Railway
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Opening times
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Saturday - Thursday: 10:00-18:00; Friday 11:00 - 18:00 | ||||
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Status from 10/2013
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Adults: £15.00; Concessions: £11.50 | ||||
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| Homepage | www.ltmuseum.co.uk | ||||
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| Location / Directions |
The entrance to the museum is from the Covent Garden Piazza, amongst the Piazza's many tourist attractions Underground Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Holborn, Charing Cross Buses Strand or Aldwych (RV1, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 139) Rail stations Charing Cross and Waterloo Cycling London Transport Museum can now be easily accessed using Barlcays Cycle Hire. Docking stations are available behind the museum on Tavistock Street and a short walk from the museum on Wellington Street. There is also a public cycle rack located a few minutes walk from the museum in Russell Street |
| Description | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city. The majority of the museum's exhibits originated in the collection of London Transport, but, since the creation of Transport for London (TfL) in 2000, the remit of the museum has expanded to cover all aspects of transportation in the city. The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden uses the name of its parent institution, sometimes suffixed by Covent Garden, and is open to the public every day. The other site, located in Acton, is known as the London Transport Museum Depot and is principally a storage site that is open on regular visitor days throughout the year. The collectionThe first parts of the collection were brought together at the beginning of the 20th century by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) when it began to preserve buses being retired from service. After the LGOC was taken over by the London Electric Railway (LER), the collection was expanded to include rail vehicles. It continued to expand after the LER became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s and as the organization passed through various successor bodies up to TfL, London's current transport authority.The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries as well as artefacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population. Larger exhibits held at Acton depot include a complete 1938 stock tube train as well as early locomotives from the first sub-surface and first deep-level lines. |
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