Acton Museum Depot March 2014

Acton Museum Depot is storage for the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Acton opens it's depot doors twice a year in this case it was for the 15th and 16th March 2014. Also they open the doors once a month for guided tours. The Piccadilly and District Line passes the depot, so it is a great opportunity for pictures and videos.

The depot holds many heritage trains and buses. Sometimes it will have Met No.1 in light steam and even Sarah Siddons and the Jubilee Carriage No.353 which you can go in. This is also a great opportunity for collectors as around the depot is many transport stalls.

Some heritage trains they have are the 1938 Stock which sometimes goes out and does tours. They have an A Stock driving car and even a 1986 prototype. You can also sometimes go in the cabs of these trains. The Acton Miniature Railways runs outside as well.

Personally, this is my favourite place to go to get collectors items.

At the last Acton Depot day I brought this A Stock destination blind in fully working order, it now sits above my bedroom door.

As you can see it still has the original blind in for the Metropolitan Line and also the East London Line.

This is also from the A Stock but is for the train number, this was bought from the London Transport Museum Friends stall.

A range of Metropolitan Line timetables also from the London Transport Museum Friends.

More timetables.

Pictures of various stations and trains. Top left is Hatton Cross station with Concorde just taking off. Top middle is a Northern Line train going through the train wash at Morden Depot. CO-OP Stock at Uxbridge at the bottom left.

A dead mans handle which I think is from the A Stock. Two Jubilee Newsletters and a ticket for Steam on the Met.

Various leaflets from various different stalls.

Farringdon station sign although this isn't enamel.

 

Another sign which is from the London Transport Museum Friends.