
Soon, Brits won't have to imagine what it would've been like to commute around London in the 1920s with the city's Museum Depot opening its doors for punters.
Located in Acton in West London , the Museum Depot houses over 320,000 items relating to the English capital's transport history.
From examples of horse-drawn carriages and old-school buses, Museum Depot harks back to the golden age of travel.
And it's not just vehicles and decommissioned tube carriages, the Museum Depot has just about every piece of Transport for London (TFL) paraphernalia imaginable - think transport posters and underground signs.
It's also home to the London Transport Miniature Railway , a working miniature railway based on real London Underground locomotives, carriages, signals and signs.
All fun aside, its main purpose is to act as a working museum store, housing important pieces of transport history in environmentally controlled conditions.
A team of curators and volunteers work to catalogue and conserve objects like ceramic tiles, engineering drawings and ticket machines.
Described as ⁘festival-style events⁘ on its website, the set open days take place throughout the year and welcome thousands of transport enthusiasts.
Its April open days will mark 200 years of the UK's railways as well as 25 years of Transport for London .
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