#london transport museum

[ginsterphotography]

Uxbridge Branch 21/07/24

[downthetubes]

London’s Kingsway Tram Subway, featured in "The Avengers" and “Paint it Black” graphic novel, open to the public for tours

Kingsway Tram Subway, at one time, probably the most important stretch of tram track in London, featured on film and in comics, is open to the public to tour, thanks to London Transport Museum

Kingsway Tram Subway, at one time, probably the most important stretch of tram track in London, featured on film and in comics, is open to the public to tour, thanks to London Transport Museum. Kingsway Tram Subway Reached by a ramp in the middle of Southampton Row at the intersection of Theobalds Road, it was closed over 70 years ago, a unique element of London’s transport system, after…

[kerryweaverlesbian]

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[alexsmithson]

London Transport Museum Embraces The Sun!

Travelling around the city gives us a reason to be inspired by the transport system that gets us from one place to the next, and the London Transport Museum embraces the sunny weather, empowering us all! #shotoniphone #photography #london #museum #travel

[vox-anglosphere]

Tangible links to our past are vital for those who never got to live it.

London Transport Museum

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Directed by Paul + Simon Wade DOP - Donna Gage Camera - Simon Wade, Hannah Fishwick Sound - Paul Wade Sound Editing - Marcella Puppini Stills - Hannah Fishwick The Puppini Sisters wear dresses from Fever London http://feverdesigns.co.uk We would like to say a big thank you to the London Transport Museum and the Acton Transport Depot. Follow @derelictmusicuk https://twitter.com/DerelictMusicUK Talk to us: derelictmusicuk@gmail.com

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[moonstruck-stormy]

Choo choo! Mr Transport playing with its model train

[r2y9s]

[Disco Elysium]

Harry's turn to be put in clothes i was wearing today.

[borealing]

hey do you guys know about

the history of the bus?

they started as an "omnibus" a horse drawn two stop back and forth along a pre determined route! then they added more stops! they messed with the size of the omnibus and the number of horses until they hit the right size for the route!

(blease note these are intra-city buses, stagecoaches would go outside the city to specific locations and they generally required a reserved seat)

they basically SLAPPED A ROOF AREA to get roof passengers! double deck omnibuses!

then we get MOTOR OMNIBUSES! as the petrol engine is getting better! for context the first motor omnibus ran in 1899 - this is 13 years after the patent for the first petrol engine car (1886), 74 years after the first steam public railway in england (1825) and 36 years after the london underground was opened (1863). by 1911 there were no horse-drawn omnibuses owned by the london general omnibus company!

AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE! (please look at the number of BUSES and INDIVIDUAL CARRIAGES [usually hired cabs] and PEDESTRIANS)

a lot of places switched to electric trams in the 1910s, public transport became reliant on the comparatively more efficient light rail or tram systems. the trams gave way to electric buses in london in 1930! they were much less dangerous than trams as people did not have to walk right into traffic to get on em

then as engines got more efficient trolleybuses were switched with petrol engine buses

then in the 1950s more people got cars and they began dominating the streets and creating.. traffic and. traffic laws. and stuff.

thanks for coming to my whistlestop bus lesson hope u have a brilliant day

[catilinas]

really good time at the museum but now i have noooooo energy :(

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

George W. Joy (1844-1925) "The Bayswater Omnibus" (1895) OIl on canvas Located in the Museum of London, London, England

[ginsterphotography]

London Transport Museum’s beautifully restored 1938 tube stock seen out on the metropolitan line at Ickenham 20/07/2024

[guerrerense]

LPTB No.ESL 107 por Hugh Llewelyn Por Flickr: LPTB Sleet Loco No.ESL 107 built 1940 at the London Transport Acton Depot Museum, 25 September 2021. Acton Works built 18 such Sheet Locos for de-icing the rails in 1939-40, each built out of two former Central London Railway 1903 motor cars. They were withdrawn in the 1980's.

[theone]

Planning a trip and museum visits and public transportation is sooo exhausting actually

[insidecroydon]

Take a journey back in time with Bus Museum's Heritage Day

Transport geeks can enjoy a bit of a busman’s holiday next weekend, when heritage London Transport buses take to the roads of south London to provide a ride back into the 1950s and ’60s. Request stop: there will be a special service next Saturday Harking back to an era of rickets and rationing, city-wide smogs and a title-winning Spurs team (these buses go back a verrrry long way…), the London…

[prattlinpeach]

London Day 5: Covent Garden, Transportation Museum, Picadilly Circus, Soho, oh my!

What a day! It was a very nice start to the day, no alarm! We got up liesurely, Miss A kept trying to dig herself deeper into the bed, and under the covers, we totally get that feeling! Got up, dressed, and headed to breakfast. Muffin for Miss A, waffles for SDL, and my usual…hard boiled egg on multi-grain baguette, y u m! And a cup of tea with sugar cubes, of course! Back to the room to get…