2004

UK trip: LT Museum, Acton Town

The main museum of London's Transport is at Covent Garden, but there is an overflow and storage site at Acton Town. For one weekend a year, this is open to the public, and we made up a party to visit Acton Town.

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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Tram bogie: note nose-mounted motors
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. General view of tube train area
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Early type of ploughs for conduit trams
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. City & South London locomotive
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Map of West London railways and tramways
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Tube trains area of museum
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Close-up of part of map of West London trams
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. "Earl's Court" station sign and seat
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Early Underground coach awaiting restoration
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. "Earl's Court" station sign and seat
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Early tube car converted to works vehicle. Note upraised floor over driving bogie.
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. UndergroounD map: unfamiliar colours!
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Battery locomotive
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. UndergrounD map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. open wagon
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. UndergrounD enamelled map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Retractable brush gear on batttery locomotive
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. UndergrounD map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Conductor-rail scraper on Electric Sleet Locomotive
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. UndergrounD map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Electric Sleet locomotive
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Enamelled Metropolitan Railway map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town: 1986-tube stock, the "Green" train, that was built as the prototype to the Central line 1992-stock.
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Enamelled Metropolitan Railway map
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. 1938 (?) tube stock
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Train describer mechanism
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town: 1986-tube stock, the "Green" train, that was built as the prototype to the Central line 1992-stock.
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Train describer mechanism
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. "Diddler" trolleybus no. 1
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London Transport Museum: Acton Town. Wheelset and axle with integral motor: from an original City & South London Crompton loco, c1891
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