London Transport Museum Depot |
W3 9BQ London, Great Britain (UK) (Greater London) |
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| Address |
2 Museum Way
118-120 Gunnersbury Lane |
| Floor area | 6 000 m² / 64 583 ft² |
Museum typ
Exhibition
Transport in general
- Passenger cars
- Trams
- Busses
- Railway
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Opening times
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It opens to the public for special events, including themed open weekends. | ||||
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Status from 10/2013
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Tours last 1 hour: Adults £10; Concessions £8.00 | ||||
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| Homepage | www.ltmuseum.co.uk/visit/museum-depot | ||||
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| Location / Directions |
UndergroundActon Town (District and Piccadilly Line)BusesE3 to Gunnersbury Lane (Acton Town)70, 207, 266, 607, H40 to Gunnersbury Lane/Uxbridge Road junction |
| Description | The museum operates from two sites within London. The main site in Covent Garden.
The Museum Depot at Acton holds the majority of the Museum's collections which are not on display in the main Museum in Covent Garden. It opens to the public for special events, including themed open weekends. The Museum Depot houses over 370,000 items of all types, including many original works of art used for the Museum's celebrated poster collection, vehicles, signs, models, photographs, engineering drawings and uniforms. Together these form one of the most comprehensive and important records of urban transport anywhere in the world. The Depot's main purpose is to act as a working museum store. It provides 6000 square metres of storage space in secure, environmentally controlled conditions. Here our curators work to catalogue and conserve objects to preserve our heritage for future generations. New for 2013 are the newly restored Metropolitan Line Steam Locomotive No. 1 and the Metropolitan Jubilee Carriage 353 which was originally built in 1898 and is one of the oldest working underground carriages. The gleaming carriage, finished with gold leaf and carrying no fewer than ten coats of varnish, bears little resemblance to the sorry-looking hulk that was used as a garden shed, and subsequently restored by experts at the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales. |
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