Transport is a basic necessity for every human being in their day to day life. One needs transport to earn their livelihood, for a leisure holiday or to meet a friend or family staying far from you. We all are connected to transport in some or the other way, and now we can not imagine a life without a fast mode of transport.
Last weekend we visited London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, London to explore and understand the history & heritage of transport for Britain. Ticket price – £13 pp for an annual pass.
A Victorian iron and glass building that originally was one of the famous vegetable fruit and flowers market, is now occupied to showcase collection for London museum. It shows and informs you about the earliest mode of transport in London- water ways i.e. boats & ships running across river Thames for export and import purposes. It displays many examples of later mode of transports like horse carts, trolley buses, buses, trams, rails. It also exhibits various artefacts like posters, signs, models, photographs, engineer drawings, engineer dresses, advertisement hoarding for marketing of transport services.
This visit will give you a good insight on how transport developed over the centuries, from labour intensive hands work to machinery development. You will read about how the tunnels were dig by hand, how first lady bus conductor came on board, how difficult was to work in such environments, how transport brought a boom to economy. A perfect day out to know about transport history of this bustling city of London.
Sharing some pictures I took during my visit.
Underground Steam Train
Ladies Only Compartment
Omni Tram Service
Trolley Buses
Places Plate Name
London Buses & Rails
Museum Floors
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Looks good. My granddad used to work for London Transport as a bus conductor. Usually I prefer the free entrance museums (natural skinflint) Last month I went to the National Railway Museum in York – a good free museum.
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Thank you Andrew. Wow you have history connected to this one.
I shall definitely visit the one in york, whenever I come to York,
Cheers
Aanchal
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Thank you Andrew for sharing the link with me. I enjoyed reading it, always feels good to read some post that is associated with so much of beautiful history in it. Your mum looked ravishing and you looked very cute in that pic:)
Cheers
Aanchal
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Transport is a basic necessity- very much true….I had visited National railway museum in York …but here your clicks are amazing Aanchal. …
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Thank you so much Chitra. You are right, museums like this makes you realize how comfortable life are we living.
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Great post! Love the pix! 🙂
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thank you so much
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Amazing post and useful.. 🙂 🙂
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thank you shru
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