Open day at the depot

Any museum that has trains in its collection needs a fair amount of floor space. Welcome to the London Transport Museum Depot in Acton Town. If you’re not a curator you might find the experience lacks a certain user-friendliness, but that’s probably why they call it a depot. They only have a few open days a year. Any more than that and trainspotters might start squatting.

pics

ikea
At first I thought we’d accidentally stumbled into IKEA.

maps
Plan your time travel.

youngsters
Get kids interested in trains and they’ll grow up to become a better class of people.

networkSE
It’s a rough network.

oiling
A little WD-40 should fix that points failure.

lair2
Disused lines are repurposed as underground lairs.

tangle
Whatever this is, you’ll know it when you see it.

buses
The Gold Bus is for 1st class passengers only.

vaseline
Safety first, Vaseline a close second.

neutral
That’s one way to keep it in neutral.

women1
women2
women3
The “char ladies of the underground” didn’t appreciate having Ron Jeremy as their supervisor.

oldbike
One for the bikespotters.

BBL
The rest of the story.

dogcollar
Even train seat cushion fabric doesn’t escape the cycle of rebirth.

toys
If you sell it they will come.

type
Toolbox of the graffiti artist before the invention of spray paint.

signs
It’s hard to make it to the end without suffering information overload.

tender
I have seen the future and it is overcrowded.

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