Travel Photo Thursday: London Transport Museum

Covent Garden is a favorite destination of ours in London. No trip to London is complete for Mrs A|T without a visit to her favorite stationary and T-Shirt stores. I love it for all of the great food [averagetraveller.com] in the area plus the London Transport Museum [www.ltmuseum.co.uk].

Double Decker Busses London Transport Museum

London has many great museums and most of them have no admission fee. Unfortunately the London Transport Museum is not one of them. A ticket to get you past the gift shop will run you £13:50, but it’s good for a full year. If the entrance fee rubs you the wrong way then the gift shop is actually quite nice on its own, as I discovered on my first two trips to London.

A trip through the museum sends you up a time machine elevator where the display counts you back towards 19th century London on the 2nd floor. It was a cute gimmick but I actually preferred seeing a children’s tour that actually had them crawl one at a time through a swirly time machine cloth tube with period costumed tour guides at the end. Sometimes low tech is better.

As you work your way back downstairs you move forwards in time from horse drawn carriages, to above ground rail, below ground rail, transport during the wars, through today and into tomorrow. For a casual visitor you could probably see everything in a couple of hours, but anyone with an interest in history and transport should allow at least half a day.

This post was submitted to Travel Photo Thursday, a weekly collection of photos by travel bloggers from around the world.  Be sure to check it out at Budget Traveler’s Sandbox [budgettravelerssandbox.com].

A model showing how they dug the tunnels for the underground railways:

Tunnelling Model London Transport Museum

Railway maps from before they developed the modern simplified map.

Meropolitan Railway Map London Transport Museum

Interior models from the swinging 60’s.

Train interior from the 60's London Transport Museum

False advertising.

It is cooler down below poster London Transport Museum

Take a ride on the Northern Line

Northern Line Tube Map London Transport Museum

Fancy new double decker buses

Next Generation Double Decker Bus London Transport Museum

 

 

13 thoughts on “Travel Photo Thursday: London Transport Museum

  1. Great seeing these. I still remember HogKong in ’74 with all the old double decker buses similar to the first. I think when London re-vamped its bus fleet in late 60’s all their buses were sent out there.

  2. Very nostalgic for me with those old buses, because the last time I rode on one of them, I was less than ten years old. I’m putting this museum on my list for a future trip to back to the country I was born in. Thanks for this informative and beautifully illustrated post, then.

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