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The London Transport Museum is based
in Covent Garden, London and was visited by our 'French' Members Michel
and Helen Gosset. The museum predominantly hosts exhibits relating
to London's transport, as well as conserving and
explaining the history of it. The museum operates from two sites within
London. The main site in Covent Garden and the other site is in Acton.
Covent Garden is the main facility and is in a Victorian iron and
glass building which had been part of the Covent Garden Vegetable Market
since 1871. The market moved out in 1971, and the building was reopened as
the London Transport Museum 1980. The collection had previously been located at Syon
Park and prior to that was at Clapham. The Covent Garden
building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and
rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries. The first underground electric
train from 1890 is also there. The Museum Depot is in Acton, west London,
and holds the majority of the museum's collections which are not on
display in the main museum. It is the base for the
museum's curators and conservators, and is used for the display of items
too large to be accommodated in the main facility.
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