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London Transport Museum Depot

The museum's Acton storehouse, three hundred and twenty thousand objects from tube trains to signal boxes, open a few weekends a year.

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The store at Acton, where most of the collection lives. Photo by Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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The depot holds what the Covent Garden museum cannot fit: rows of locomotives and carriages, the signalling and the ticket machines, the posters and the models, and the workshops where the vehicles are restored, on a site the size of a station. It opens on themed weekends three or four times a year, with the miniature railway running and the curators about, and the dates go quickly; the museum's site lists them.

Where
W3 9BQ
Nearest station
Acton Town · 3 min walk

Opening hours, as recorded in OpenStreetMap: "special events"

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