Second this! Also recommended Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (and visiting Haworth) if you're in Yorkshire. Especially if you liked the old railway carriages, you'd probably enjoy any of the UK's heritage railways
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford Cambridgeshire is a great museum it's partly a living museum because some of the aircraft are still airworthy. You will find old early Biplanes up to more modern jets on display, restoration workshops and the Airfield itself is an exhibit as it was an important base in WWII. It's a good place to visit.
Yes, if you have even a slight interest in aviation you'll have a great time. Go soon if you are going to as it's having some "improvements" soon which will change it a lot, and probably not for the better.
That was interesting! I have myeloma (cancer) and the immunotherapy I'm on weakens my immune system. The doctor has advised me to avoid public transport as much as possible. So, no trains to London for me. Luckily, I am able to visit the London Transport Museum virtually, with your help!
My son goes there regularly because his husband and him produce all the Bus Maps these days since TFL stopped making them and he has to deliver them to the museum. They make historic ones as well as current ones and send a percentage of every sold map to a different charity each year.
I don't know if you are aware that the London Transport Museum also opens up its depot at Acton for a number of Open Days throughout the year. This is something well worth going to.
Also, you know there's post-office specific tube system under London - designed for tiny trains used to haul mail about - it's not been used in years and has now been converted for tourists to be able to ride on. Probably not great for those with claustrophobia - but I've been fascinated by the idea of the spaces beneath cities - would also like to see the insides of the bascule under Tower Bridge one day too. Have visited the Crossness pumping station though - that was fascinating. The Victorians were utterly bonkers - they built a steam engine for pumping the sh** out of London and thought, what this really, really needs is 'bling' lots and lots of 'bling'. For anyone who thinks 'steampunk' is a modern thing, all they need to do is look at photo's of that place.
I did the Mail Rail museum with my son last year. It was pretty fun. Feels like going down into another secret underworld. Like you're in a Bond movie or something.
London Transport have another far lager museum at Acton that opens for a few days each year. It contains whole trains and has maybe 30 buses plus 1000’s of smaller items.
I visited the Transport museum twice, taking a friend the second time. Also the Acton museum which is underground train - oriented. Well worth a visit though I believe you have to book a visiting - date.
When I was a student there were still some 1938 stock tube trains in operation on the Bakerloo line (they only went out of service in 1988). Sometimes I'd take a slightly convoluted route home in the hope of getting to ride on one and travel with a bit more style than usual.
The 38 stock had an atmosphere for sure. I was surprised to encounter it on the Isle of Wight running between the ferry and the town a few years later.
Alanna ! You are breath of fresh air! Am British, but have lived in USA 22 years! I cannot thank you enough for what you upload in your videos! I visit UK several times a year< you really are great and you make my laugh out loud at some of your presentations! You really are awesome! As I said, you are breath of fresh air! Thank you! Enjoy UK ! Try and visit Barts Hospital medical museum! Very best wishes! Am now one of your neighbors, living in Maine
Yeah for those of you whom thought electric buses were the new future, at one time London had the largest (all electric) trolleybus network in the world, until someone thought diesel buses were the future…
The LT Museum also arranges visits to former stations, and also now hidden disused parts of stations. I went on the Euston one recently and it was extreemly interesting. Details are on the museum web site.
The museum also runs Hidden London tours of abandoned underground stations and heritage journeys on restored 1930s tube trains, the museum has a depot at Acton Town with open weekends.
Excellent! Never been there - must remember to go next time I visit London. If you get a chance, try and visit the Cabinet War Rooms - small museum, but highly historically significant - though not sure you'd get much if any footage.
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but the London Transport Museum has a great UA-cam channel. They host a show on their UA-cam called Hidden London Hangouts where they take you to all the hidden places in the London Underground that aren't accessible to the public.
An excellent tour of the London Transport Museum. Went there a long time ago. Am inspired to return. I watch loads of vids, especially about aircraft museums around the world. Yours would put a lot of them to shame! Love the vid, love your enthusiasm. Brilliant.
That's a strange ticketing system but at least it means you can go back and visit your manniquin friends! It's worth mentioning that kids go free, if anyone is thinking of planning a trip. I'm enjoying these solo adventures, thanks Alanna!
Always wondered what was behind the glass doors, fun video, the gift shop was always very handy for Christmas presents for my brother. He collects model buses... yes I know.😐....Thanks for this....
The Museum also has a depot adjacent to Acton Town Station which is open on several weekends during the year. This is where they house the rest of the collection, including whole trains and other artifacts.
I'm toying with showing this video to a friend of mine, a real public transport anorak, but I'm frightened to do so, not because it was a bad video, it wasn't, it was a very good video. I just don't know if I've got the stamina to listen to the four hour lecture he'd give me. Keep up the good work. 😉 😂
Alanna, another great video. When you mentioned that buses were commandeered and used to move Troops in the first world war, that is why London Transport are at the Cenotaph next to the Armed forces etc, at the laying of the wreaths.
I'm glad you gave it a go - I work at the British Motor Museum and have spoken to a lot of people who say they aren't into cars, but didn't realise how much social history there are at transport museums. We have a 1923 S type bus on loan from them actually, which I love showing people around. We visited LTM about 12 years ago but I'd really like to go again, especially as we have kids now. Maybe something for the summer holidays.
As an enthusiast for public transport and history who has been to this museum several times I was fascinated to hear your interpretation of the displays, exhibits and history that you saw.
Horse buses and trams are also something I never thought of before. A light rail train line just opened here and during the local news segments, they were speaking to the train "enthusiasts" who were very pleased. The 1911 tram car was giving me Knight Bus vibes. I think this museum looks super cool and I don't even use public transport.
We think of today's motorised traffic as noisy and polluting, but in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, things were arguably worse. Thousands of horses wearing iron shoes on cobbled streets must've been deafening, the manure they left behind must've stunk and been very unhygienic, and if a horse died I'm told they just left it to rot until its flesh was soft enough to remove in pieces. The old fashioned coach-built vehicles did look cool though.
Ah, one of my favourite videos - the solo museum trip. Really enjoyed it. As a youngster in London, I used the tube and buses daily and it brought back quite a few memories of those daily travels. One of the other interesting bits (for me) were the different ticket systems over the years. On my first bus trips as a child, the tickets were issued by a LT employee who plucked a ticket from a big wooden holder and punched holes in the paper ticket at the stage number (bus stop number) where you boarded the bus and the stop where your fare would take you. Ticket inspectors would board seemingly randomly to ensure everyone had valid tickets. The the next system that came along was the ticket issuer carried a little printing machine on a strap around his neck, where the stop and start information would be dialled in and with a crank on the side of the printer a ticket would be printed. Then when the buses inly had a driver and no ticket person, the driver would take the fares. So yes I found this video just great. Thanks for making it!
Thanks for this video, I would never have considered going to that museum but now I will make sure I do the next time I am in London. I was born in the 1960's and remember some of those tube trains and buses still in service in the 1980's. I feel old now, 🤣
Another interesting trip with Alanna as our guide, thank you. You're becoming more British in each video - today 90 'quid' for a tote bag! Note: apart from the driver, the guy who issued tickets on the bus and checked them was called a 'clippie', because they (men or women), clipped the purchased ticket with like a hole punch.
I was at that museum 12 years ago and I was pleasantly surprised by it. It's a lot bigger than you'd think and very interesting! It was fun seeing it again through your eyes. I don't remember it being that pricey back then but I suppose they rotate the exhibits quite a bit so maybe an annual ticket makes sense.
the last time i travelled on a Routemaster bus was just 2024, my brother got married and hired one to move the wedding guests. It still turned heads, people taking photos of it. A Class design i remember growing up with them and as a teen. Sad to see them go
Theres lots of transport museums dotted around the UK. I been to the Manchester one a few times. Some of them offer bus rides on the vintage buses at certain times of the year too
Hey Alanna, brilliant video, I'm glad you finally made it to the TFL museum, it's a great place to visit. I hope you found something there that interested you or even surprised you about transport in London. 👏👏👏
There is a TV series called 'Secrets of the London Underground', which is very interesting, showing old stations, with posters from 60-70 years old on the walls..
so the 1938 tube stock was still running on the isle of wight only a few years ago and i used to commute on them all the time !! and we now got a slightly newer one but yeah they still are around in the uk !! good video !
It's a fascinating museum as it teaches you aspects of public transport that you'd never considered before - such as the advertising and associated artwork as you were saying. I went there in the late 2000s and I really enjoyed it as I've been a transport and vehicle enthususast all my life but found a lot that I knew nothing of before.
Well, it is probably the 1938 trains you are remembering on the deep level tubes (Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly). The Q stock would not have fit the smaller deep-level tube tunnels - they ran on the sub-surface District line, and similar large-profile trains were found on the Circle, the Metropolitan (which then included the Hammersmith & City Line). I remember the last of the old trains on the District in the 70s - and the 1938 trains on the Bakerloo and Northern Lines by then (the always gave a feeling of visiting an old uncle, with their soft seats, warm tungsten lights and strange scents from years of people, tunnel dust and tobacco smoke - mind you, back then, smoking was permitted in some carriages and throughout stations and platforms - even deep tube! It wasn't until 1980s that changed.... and compliance not perfect until the 1987 fire at Kings Cross.
Really interesting video and I must go there next time that I am in England. I well remember the buses with the open platform at the back, seeing how many could stand there with some hanging on to the pole
Seasonal ticket is good if you have kids. We’ve been like 6 times in one year with our son, first when he was like 2y4m and up until he became 3. We first lived in zone 2, so it was close, but now even in zone 4-5 we are it can be life saver to be able to have a break in the middle of long trip (for example to reading) during bad winter weather, because of it convenient location. South Kensington is much less convenient as a “layover” destination :)
Very cool, i remember going there on a school trip! Loving these little trip vids. You should try the museum of brands, the cartoon museum or the horniman museum and gardens. The last one is better in late spring/summer. Can't wait to see where you go next.
Wow, I like history, and machinery-and Art. What a wonderful place! Thanks, Alanna, keep the Museum Tours going. Perhaps, take a lunch break, then you'd be able to carry on some more-just for us. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Hi Alanna! As a retired mechanical design engineer, who spent most of his working life working in the rail industry, I am commenting about Train Spotters. You saw a display of books about trains. In my job, the "Platform 5" books were very useful to me because I often had to do work for old loco's etc, and it really helped to have such a handy reference. Bye!
If you want a museum recommendation thats more in the midlands. The National Justice Museum up here in Nottingham is pretty fun, you can also get tickets to head into the nearby city of caves as well.
Excellent video, Alanna! It's been about 10 years since I last visited the London Transport Museum, so I'm maybe overdue another visit. I think it's an indication of how well a museum is doing its job if it's interesting to visit for people who don't know a lot about the subject area as well as being enjoyable for people who do know the subject!
Hi Alanna, If you liked the posters etc, you might like The Depot, where they keep all the stuff they can't fit in the actual museum. It's in Acton, (North West London) and has limited opening hours, but it is interesting, and not so many placards to read!
Tha ks for this was there just before Christmas but the london at war part was closed so finally got 2c inside there. The varridge @18:15 is part of a talk they do a sort of reenactment. Alsonever see covent garden so quiet before
If you liked the Posters and Adverts then The TFL Acton Depot Museum is where the TFL Poster store is and has some wonderful art (you can get there on the tube, and the poster store is only open to small groups)
If you want history you might consider Hampton Court, or Hatfield House. Not as easy to get to, as they aren't on the tube (Hatfield house is another 20 train journey from Kings Cross), but both well worth the effort if you like the Tudor period. Also if the weather's nice, Kew Gardens is nice to wander round -if you go don't forget to check out the Marianne North art gallery, full of her botanical art from the 19th century
Hiya Alanna, I enjoyed this adventure to London Transport Museum, if you watch on UA-cam films from the late 19th and Early 20th centuries, you can see transport like the older buses and Trams (You call them street cars), I found that out on Johnny Strides, he lives in Toronto, thankyou for taking us there
of course it most valued exhibit is of course Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history.
Of course, if you do buy a cushion (or a tote bag) in the London Transport moquette (each line has a different pattern), it's very unlikely to wear out under normal use! (I wonder if the annual ticket is to allow for the number of people who get 'worded out' halfway through and need to come back later to finish reading the placards?)
Love these solo trips...hope they help to build your confidence. You seem to be doing just fine. That was a treat, I'm getting more and more in to historical transport. I adore steam engines and would happily spend hours poking around this museum :)
You should have popped out (3 minutes away), across to the Covent Garden 'Jubilee Market Hall' to eat something! They have a selection of food cafes a lot more affordable. Peter's Cafe (ground floor), does all day breakfasts, snacks and sandwiches etc.
Alana, your travel blogs are so good. I know it will be so good. Without further.... sorry that's your line.........Yep Alana into 1807 guys? As usual, nailed it.
I went last year - lots of kids being told about all the horse poo in the streets of old! Nerdy bit now - the cushions have the designs, which are called maquettes I think, of-the seats on various tube lines, not the stations. The purple one is the Elizabeth Line.
The museum shows only a small percentage of what TfL have retained from the past. Everything else is at a storage location in Acton, which is opened a couple of times a year. They even have far far more posters there !!
That was a really good and interesting tour. I'm sure the museum would be proud of you, it's definitely made me keen to go visit, even if that annual pass thing which is so common is just a straight up scam.
Very interesting. Great narrative delivered with enthusiasm and a great smile. On your ownsome can be good, especially in museums; no pressure 'this way or that way'. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
The shop also offers socks and pyjamas patterned on the moquette used in Routemaster buses for the true obsessive. Either that, or they might be intended as camouflage for homeless people sleeping on night buses.
That's a cool place. Hidden there are bits of Concorde and shinier things. I got behind the scenes a long time ago. The bits you see are the "curated" parts of the collection. Buy someone a pint and ask to get a proper tour of the collection.
Oooo Alanna, if you're gonna start doing museums you're tapping into a whole new vine. An especially good one is the Pitt Rivers in Oxford which is IMHO the very best ever. It's got draws and draws of stuff you can open up and peer into. Lots of magic too. I mean literally (sympathetic) magic. Wonderful insight into the universal facets of human nature. I don't mean to over egg it but do consider it. All the best
I would heartily recommend the Crich Tramway Museum if you ever decide to venture to Derbyshire. It's well worth a visit and you can have rides on a number of the trams themselves.
You didn't have a go on the train driver simulators? That's the best bit! It's free entry for kids and a lot of the museum is targeted at them, so the 12-month pass is great for parents. It saved me money when mine was smaller.
I don't know if it's a conscious decision or not, but I like that you have lunch in the museums. It's a part of it after-all. Got to say, over-all, looks like a good museum and I'd definitely consider going. Not hugely into trains etc... but, like yourself, the history-of-London side, and that you can step onto the old trams and trains etc... seems neat.
The National Railway Museum in York is massive and free, and its only 1:45 from Kings cross to get there... worth a look! :-)
Second this! Also recommended Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (and visiting Haworth) if you're in Yorkshire. Especially if you liked the old railway carriages, you'd probably enjoy any of the UK's heritage railways
The Imperial War Museum at Duxford Cambridgeshire is a great museum it's partly a living museum because some of the aircraft are still airworthy.
You will find old early Biplanes up to more modern jets on display, restoration workshops and the Airfield itself is an exhibit as it was an important base in WWII.
It's a good place to visit.
Yes, if you have even a slight interest in aviation you'll have a great time. Go soon if you are going to as it's having some "improvements" soon which will change it a lot, and probably not for the better.
That was interesting! I have myeloma (cancer) and the immunotherapy I'm on weakens my immune system. The doctor has advised me to avoid public transport as much as possible. So, no trains to London for me. Luckily, I am able to visit the London Transport Museum virtually, with your help!
The greatest art on the London Underground is the tube map itself.
My son goes there regularly because his husband and him produce all the Bus Maps these days since TFL stopped making them and he has to deliver them to the museum. They make historic ones as well as current ones and send a percentage of every sold map to a different charity each year.
Solo travel can be so empowering. Keep it up, Alanna!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I have been doing lots of this since 2020, I love visiting places solo. I did the London transport museum last summer like this.
The TfL museum has been high on my list of things to see, and I think this bumped it up a bit higher! Thanks!
I don't know if you are aware that the London Transport Museum also opens up its depot at Acton for a number of Open Days throughout the year. This is something well worth going to.
Also, you know there's post-office specific tube system under London - designed for tiny trains used to haul mail about - it's not been used in years and has now been converted for tourists to be able to ride on. Probably not great for those with claustrophobia - but I've been fascinated by the idea of the spaces beneath cities - would also like to see the insides of the bascule under Tower Bridge one day too. Have visited the Crossness pumping station though - that was fascinating. The Victorians were utterly bonkers - they built a steam engine for pumping the sh** out of London and thought, what this really, really needs is 'bling' lots and lots of 'bling'. For anyone who thinks 'steampunk' is a modern thing, all they need to do is look at photo's of that place.
I believe there is also a limited train that used to (and possibly still does) serve parliament ?
I did the Mail Rail museum with my son last year. It was pretty fun. Feels like going down into another secret underworld. Like you're in a Bond movie or something.
I’ve been under the bascule in the south tower years ago.Its a huge space.
I went to Brooklands museum in Weybridge.I loved all the old racing cars and motorbikes.
London Transport have another far lager museum at Acton that opens for a few days each year. It contains whole trains and has maybe 30 buses plus 1000’s of smaller items.
I visited the Transport museum twice, taking a friend the second time. Also the Acton museum which is underground train - oriented. Well worth a visit though I believe you have to book a visiting - date.
When I was a student there were still some 1938 stock tube trains in operation on the Bakerloo line (they only went out of service in 1988). Sometimes I'd take a slightly convoluted route home in the hope of getting to ride on one and travel with a bit more style than usual.
The 38 stock had an atmosphere for sure. I was surprised to encounter it on the Isle of Wight running between the ferry and the town a few years later.
Alanna ! You are breath of fresh air! Am British, but have lived in USA 22 years! I cannot thank you enough for what you upload in your videos! I visit UK several times a year< you really are great and you make my laugh out loud at some of your presentations! You really are awesome! As I said, you are breath of fresh air! Thank you! Enjoy UK !
Try and visit Barts Hospital medical museum!
Very best wishes! Am now one of your neighbors, living in Maine
@15:00 That is one of the restored, majestic and silent London trolleybuses.
Ah, John, you got in first! Thanks for confirming ny suspicion.
Yeah for those of you whom thought electric buses were the new future, at one time London had the largest (all electric) trolleybus network in the world, until someone thought diesel buses were the future…
The LT Museum also arranges visits to former stations, and also now hidden disused parts of stations. I went on the Euston one recently and it was extreemly interesting. Details are on the museum web site.
The museum also runs Hidden London tours of abandoned underground stations and heritage journeys on restored 1930s tube trains, the museum has a depot at Acton Town with open weekends.
That art section alone was worth the admission price, imho. Love that kind of thing! Great video, thank you from 🇨🇦
Excellent! Never been there - must remember to go next time I visit London. If you get a chance, try and visit the Cabinet War Rooms - small museum, but highly historically significant - though not sure you'd get much if any footage.
Thanks for watching! The War Rooms has been on my list, but thanks for the reminder 🙏🏻
Don't know if anyone's mentioned this but the London Transport Museum has a great UA-cam channel. They host a show on their UA-cam called Hidden London Hangouts where they take you to all the hidden places in the London Underground that aren't accessible to the public.
Excellent show, always worth watching.
An excellent tour of the London Transport Museum. Went there a long time ago. Am inspired to return.
I watch loads of vids, especially about aircraft museums around the world. Yours would put a lot of them to shame! Love the vid, love your enthusiasm. Brilliant.
That's a strange ticketing system but at least it means you can go back and visit your manniquin friends! It's worth mentioning that kids go free, if anyone is thinking of planning a trip. I'm enjoying these solo adventures, thanks Alanna!
Thanks for watching!
Always wondered what was behind the glass doors, fun video, the gift shop was always very handy for Christmas presents for my brother. He collects model buses... yes I know.😐....Thanks for this....
Cheers Steven! Loooaddss of stuff in the gift shop 🫡
The Museum also has a depot adjacent to Acton Town Station which is open on several weekends during the year. This is where they house the rest of the collection, including whole trains and other artifacts.
I like how they catered towards both adults and kids. Thanks for taking us around!
Here in Omaha Nebraska I visited a train museum. I found your video fascinating. Good Public transport in the US is a dream unfortunately. Thanks!
But soon the US will be great again, so I've been told. No automobiles, just buses, trams, subways, trains?
I'm toying with showing this video to a friend of mine, a real public transport anorak, but I'm frightened to do so, not because it was a bad video, it wasn't, it was a very good video. I just don't know if I've got the stamina to listen to the four hour lecture he'd give me. Keep up the good work. 😉 😂
Bored ? No way ! ! You sold it to me, i really want to go and visit this now !
Alanna, another great video. When you mentioned that buses were commandeered and used to move Troops in the first world war, that is why London Transport are at the Cenotaph next to the Armed forces etc, at the laying of the wreaths.
love a good museum tour with you, im having my tea as I watch, thank you.
Thank you! 🙏🏻
I'm glad you gave it a go - I work at the British Motor Museum and have spoken to a lot of people who say they aren't into cars, but didn't realise how much social history there are at transport museums. We have a 1923 S type bus on loan from them actually, which I love showing people around.
We visited LTM about 12 years ago but I'd really like to go again, especially as we have kids now. Maybe something for the summer holidays.
This was cool. I also loved all the posters with the amazing diversity of art styles 👍
Me, too! Found the posters really surprising
@@AdventuresAndNaps Reproductions of many of the posters can be bought at the shop.
As an enthusiast for public transport and history who has been to this museum several times I was fascinated to hear your interpretation of the displays, exhibits and history that you saw.
Do you know she's a post box spotter.. who had the audacity to say train spotting is weird 😮
Cheeky monkey
Really good video.
This is one of the London museums I haven't been too.
It's nice to see you having a good time.
Thank you!
Horse buses and trams are also something I never thought of before. A light rail train line just opened here and during the local news segments, they were speaking to the train "enthusiasts" who were very pleased. The 1911 tram car was giving me Knight Bus vibes. I think this museum looks super cool and I don't even use public transport.
We think of today's motorised traffic as noisy and polluting, but in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, things were arguably worse. Thousands of horses wearing iron shoes on cobbled streets must've been deafening, the manure they left behind must've stunk and been very unhygienic, and if a horse died I'm told they just left it to rot until its flesh was soft enough to remove in pieces. The old fashioned coach-built vehicles did look cool though.
Absolute joy watching your journey and visit to the museum in Covent Garden. Great commentary and look forward to second part of your day out.
I wouldn't normally go to a museum like this, but that was really interesting. I agree the posters were the highlight!
Cheers pal! ☺️
Ah, one of my favourite videos - the solo museum trip. Really enjoyed it. As a youngster in London, I used the tube and buses daily and it brought back quite a few memories of those daily travels. One of the other interesting bits (for me) were the different ticket systems over the years. On my first bus trips as a child, the tickets were issued by a LT employee who plucked a ticket from a big wooden holder and punched holes in the paper ticket at the stage number (bus stop number) where you boarded the bus and the stop where your fare would take you. Ticket inspectors would board seemingly randomly to ensure everyone had valid tickets.
The the next system that came along was the ticket issuer carried a little printing machine on a strap around his neck, where the stop and start information would be dialled in and with a crank on the side of the printer a ticket would be printed. Then when the buses inly had a driver and no ticket person, the driver would take the fares.
So yes I found this video just great. Thanks for making it!
Some of us remember when buses had conductors.
Thanks for another day out !
Hope this one does well for you , really enjoyed it !
Thanks for this video, I would never have considered going to that museum but now I will make sure I do the next time I am in London. I was born in the 1960's and remember some of those tube trains and buses still in service in the 1980's. I feel old now, 🤣
Another interesting trip with Alanna as our guide, thank you. You're becoming more British in each video - today 90 'quid' for a tote bag! Note: apart from the driver, the guy who issued tickets on the bus and checked them was called a 'clippie', because they (men or women), clipped the purchased ticket with like a hole punch.
I was at that museum 12 years ago and I was pleasantly surprised by it. It's a lot bigger than you'd think and very interesting! It was fun seeing it again through your eyes. I don't remember it being that pricey back then but I suppose they rotate the exhibits quite a bit so maybe an annual ticket makes sense.
the last time i travelled on a Routemaster bus was just 2024, my brother got married and hired one to move the wedding guests. It still turned heads, people taking photos of it. A Class design i remember growing up with them and as a teen. Sad to see them go
I love the art on the Underground. When I was a younger I used to collect the free tube maps, each time they updated the artwork on it.
Great video.
It’s good to see all the different types of vehicles, train engines and carriages from past to present.
Alanna that was excellent. The content of your videos is really interesting and you do a great job
yes i get a anxious about missing a train always catch the one before just in case.
7:47 I like how you refer to that locomotive as "Big Guy"
Theres lots of transport museums dotted around the UK. I been to the Manchester one a few times. Some of them offer bus rides on the vintage buses at certain times of the year too
Hey Alanna, brilliant video, I'm glad you finally made it to the TFL museum, it's a great place to visit. I hope you found something there that interested you or even surprised you about transport in London. 👏👏👏
Thank you!
Yay! I love the solo outings videos! 🎉
There is a TV series called 'Secrets of the London Underground', which is very interesting, showing old stations, with posters from 60-70 years old on the walls..
Awesome series. Can't wait for them to do another season.
Think I was there the day after you, enjoyed my visit. I'll go back again and see the things I missed
In common with many of the paid-to-enter attractions in London there is some sort of 2-for-1 deal available if you travel by train.
Useful, but not on a solo trip - it gives you a free ticket for a second person if you got there by train
so the 1938 tube stock was still running on the isle of wight only a few years ago and i used to commute on them all the time !! and we now got a slightly newer one but yeah they still are around in the uk !! good video !
It's a fascinating museum as it teaches you aspects of public transport that you'd never considered before - such as the advertising and associated artwork as you were saying. I went there in the late 2000s and I really enjoyed it as I've been a transport and vehicle enthususast all my life but found a lot that I knew nothing of before.
Those Q stock trains were still used on the Bakerloo line in the sixties into the early seventies. I remember them as having very dirty floors!
Well, it is probably the 1938 trains you are remembering on the deep level tubes (Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly). The Q stock would not have fit the smaller deep-level tube tunnels - they ran on the sub-surface District line, and similar large-profile trains were found on the Circle, the Metropolitan (which then included the Hammersmith & City Line). I remember the last of the old trains on the District in the 70s - and the 1938 trains on the Bakerloo and Northern Lines by then (the always gave a feeling of visiting an old uncle, with their soft seats, warm tungsten lights and strange scents from years of people, tunnel dust and tobacco smoke - mind you, back then, smoking was permitted in some carriages and throughout stations and platforms - even deep tube! It wasn't until 1980s that changed.... and compliance not perfect until the 1987 fire at Kings Cross.
Really interesting video and I must go there next time that I am in England. I well remember the buses with the open platform at the back, seeing how many could stand there with some hanging on to the pole
Seasonal ticket is good if you have kids. We’ve been like 6 times in one year with our son, first when he was like 2y4m and up until he became 3. We first lived in zone 2, so it was close, but now even in zone 4-5 we are it can be life saver to be able to have a break in the middle of long trip (for example to reading) during bad winter weather, because of it convenient location. South Kensington is much less convenient as a “layover” destination :)
Thanks for taking us to the museum!
Alanna that was an interesting museum I've known of its existence but had no idea what was inside. Thanks for sharing your trip
Very cool, i remember going there on a school trip! Loving these little trip vids.
You should try the museum of brands, the cartoon museum or the horniman museum and gardens. The last one is better in late spring/summer.
Can't wait to see where you go next.
Really liked watching this - thank you so much for filming it.
Wow, I like history, and machinery-and Art. What a wonderful place! Thanks, Alanna, keep the Museum Tours going. Perhaps, take a lunch break, then you'd be able to carry on some more-just for us. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Great video! Inspired me to visit this museum one day
Hi Alanna! As a retired mechanical design engineer, who spent most of his working life working in the rail industry, I am commenting about Train Spotters. You saw a display of books about trains. In my job, the "Platform 5" books were very useful to me because I often had to do work for old loco's etc, and it really helped to have such a handy reference. Bye!
If you want a museum recommendation thats more in the midlands. The National Justice Museum up here in Nottingham is pretty fun, you can also get tickets to head into the nearby city of caves as well.
Excellent video, Alanna! It's been about 10 years since I last visited the London Transport Museum, so I'm maybe overdue another visit. I think it's an indication of how well a museum is doing its job if it's interesting to visit for people who don't know a lot about the subject area as well as being enjoyable for people who do know the subject!
You're totally right! I'm not much of a train person, but I really enjoyed it.
Hi Alanna,
If you liked the posters etc, you might like The Depot, where they keep all the stuff they can't fit in the actual museum. It's in Acton, (North West London) and has limited opening hours, but it is interesting, and not so many placards to read!
Tha ks for this was there just before Christmas but the london at war part was closed so finally got 2c inside there. The varridge @18:15 is part of a talk they do a sort of reenactment. Alsonever see covent garden so quiet before
If you liked the Posters and Adverts then The TFL Acton Depot Museum is where the TFL Poster store is and has some wonderful art
(you can get there on the tube, and the poster store is only open to small groups)
If you want history you might consider Hampton Court, or Hatfield House. Not as easy to get to, as they aren't on the tube (Hatfield house is another 20 train journey from Kings Cross), but both well worth the effort if you like the Tudor period.
Also if the weather's nice, Kew Gardens is nice to wander round -if you go don't forget to check out the Marianne North art gallery, full of her botanical art from the 19th century
09:00 - Jumped out my skin at that mannequin, then realised it was you! 😂
There is a horse-drawn tramway still in operation. It's located on the Isle of Man.
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Hiya Alanna, I enjoyed this adventure to London Transport Museum, if you watch on UA-cam films from the late 19th and Early 20th centuries, you can see transport like the older buses and Trams (You call them street cars), I found that out on Johnny Strides, he lives in Toronto, thankyou for taking us there
The Royal Armouries in Leeds is a 'must do' if you are ever up that way. Right, bacon butty and a mug of tea time while I watch.
of course it most valued exhibit is of course
Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history.
Of course, if you do buy a cushion (or a tote bag) in the London Transport moquette (each line has a different pattern), it's very unlikely to wear out under normal use!
(I wonder if the annual ticket is to allow for the number of people who get 'worded out' halfway through and need to come back later to finish reading the placards?)
Even better, go to their depot in Acton (you have to book) and see the stuff that won't fit in Covent Garden
Love these solo trips...hope they help to build your confidence. You seem to be doing just fine. That was a treat, I'm getting more and more in to historical transport. I adore steam engines and would happily spend hours poking around this museum :)
You should have popped out (3 minutes away), across to the Covent Garden 'Jubilee Market Hall' to eat something! They have a selection of food cafes a lot more affordable. Peter's Cafe (ground floor), does all day breakfasts, snacks and sandwiches etc.
Alana, your travel blogs are so good. I know it will be so good. Without further.... sorry that's your line.........Yep Alana into 1807 guys? As usual, nailed it.
I went last year - lots of kids being told about all the horse poo in the streets of old! Nerdy bit now - the cushions have the designs, which are called maquettes I think, of-the seats on various tube lines, not the stations. The purple one is the Elizabeth Line.
Moquette is the word they chose. Lovely design and hard-wearing, but those museum prices!
The museum shows only a small percentage of what TfL have retained from the past. Everything else is at a storage location in Acton, which is opened a couple of times a year. They even have far far more posters there !!
Keep up the courageous and fascinating excursions, Alanna. Love your output!
That second mannequin, the one with the beard, looks like Captain Haddock from Tintin...
Marvellous love. I'm glad you payed the entrance fee though...
That was a lot of fun x
i enjoyed this. very interesting, shame i will likely never go myself, so this is next best thing - with commentary too!
That was a really good and interesting tour. I'm sure the museum would be proud of you, it's definitely made me keen to go visit, even if that annual pass thing which is so common is just a straight up scam.
Very interesting. Great narrative delivered with enthusiasm and a great smile. On your ownsome can be good, especially in museums; no pressure 'this way or that way'. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
The shop also offers socks and pyjamas patterned on the moquette used in Routemaster buses for the true obsessive. Either that, or they might be intended as camouflage for homeless people sleeping on night buses.
Near Acton has the full size transport museum open certain days
That's a cool place. Hidden there are bits of Concorde and shinier things. I got behind the scenes a long time ago.
The bits you see are the "curated" parts of the collection. Buy someone a pint and ask to get a proper tour of the collection.
I admire you for solo travelling.. I have felt much freer doing it
that is very cool, the benefits of having a country that has had time to really build a history
Great video. You should take a trip to the National Railway museum in York. It is a fascinating place with more than just trains, plus it’s free.
Oooo Alanna, if you're gonna start doing museums you're tapping into a whole new vine.
An especially good one is the Pitt Rivers in Oxford which is IMHO the very best ever. It's got draws and draws of stuff you can open up and peer into. Lots of magic too. I mean literally (sympathetic) magic. Wonderful insight into the universal facets of human nature.
I don't mean to over egg it but do consider it.
All the best
I forgot to mention that the Pitt Rivers has a lot of Canadian native artifacts. Plenty of native Americas continent too.
I would heartily recommend the Crich Tramway Museum if you ever decide to venture to Derbyshire. It's well worth a visit and you can have rides on a number of the trams themselves.
You didn't have a go on the train driver simulators? That's the best bit! It's free entry for kids and a lot of the museum is targeted at them, so the 12-month pass is great for parents. It saved me money when mine was smaller.
When the Underground railways first ran they had separate compartments for First, Second and Third class passengers.
So interested Alana‼️ You're a child at heart and I love it. Congrats on becoming a "train surgeon" Gawd bless ya‼️😂😂❤️
I don't know if it's a conscious decision or not, but I like that you have lunch in the museums. It's a part of it after-all.
Got to say, over-all, looks like a good museum and I'd definitely consider going. Not hugely into trains etc... but, like yourself, the history-of-London side, and that you can step onto the old trams and trains etc... seems neat.
I love a museum. Keep going with this series.
Thanks! Will do!