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All Aboard For Free Heritage Bus Rides This June

213 and 293 routes go retro.

London’s first female bus mechanic honoured with blue plaque

The first woman to qualify as a London bus mechanic has been honoured with a blue plaque near the garage where she broke into the male-dominated profession in 1984.Read more ›

Oxford Bus Museum showcases 50 classic scooters

A total of 50 scooters, mostly from the 1960s, gathered in Long Hanborough for Scooter Sunday at the Oxford Bus Museum on March 29.

You can ride a vintage 1930s tube train in London next month

London Transport Museum is giving train buffs the chance to travel back in time on old Piccadilly line trains for the early May bank holiday – here’s how to book a trip

A Double Decker In Stained Glass

The church with the most Londony windows.

Ride to 1066: Taking the bus to the Battle of Hastings

With the Bayeux Tapestry heading to London, a journey on the aptly numbered 1066 bus retraces history at a more leisurely pace.Read more ›

Ride On A 1938 Art Deco Tube Train This May

OMG that moquette!

Two Blue Plaques For London Transport’s First Woman Bus Mechanic

"It's incredibly special."

Three London bus routes (and two DLR lines) are now free to ride for two months

After the opening of the Silvertown Tunnel last April, several bus routes and Docklands Light Railway services will remain free until the end of May

Festival of Britain - SE20

Festival of Britain1951Award for merit

Ceramic map of rail lines - System

Tickets Alert: Heritage tube train tours are back

The London Underground’s historic 1930s tube train is going to be back out on the rails this summer, and tickets are on sale now.Read more ›

Free open day at Tilbury Cruise Terminal and a “parliamentary” bus service

If you want to see inside a disused railway station AND inside the London Cruise Terminal, AND visit an old fort, AND ride a parliamentary bus to get there, then put 9th May in you...

Go-Ahead introduces electric buses on London bus route 322

More electric buses are arriving on London’s streets, with 13 new zero-emission buses now operating between Crystal Palace and Clapham Common.Read more ›

England - London (2L 98)

Postcard England - London 

Ceramic maps - plaque

London Victoria Station Historic Tiled MapsThese hand-painted ceramic line maps were made in 1899 for the London Brighton & South Coast Railway as part of an ambitious extensio...

Visiting Bourne Hall museum

In 1970, a flying saucer flattened a manor house near Epsom, and it’s still there – as the local library and museum.Read more ›

This free London museum is officially one of the greatest in the world

One of the capital’s iconic institutions is among the 12 museums everyone should visit before they die

Shoreditch’s famous tube trains to open to the public as a rooftop bar

Shoreditch’s famous disused tube trains, which have spent decades serving as private workspaces, are going to be opened to the public as a rooftop bar.Read more ›

Where To Explore Science In London

Museums, festivals and talks.

Untold Stories Of The DLR's Early Years

Anecdotes from one of the line's early managers.

Book: London's Real Heritage Pubs, By CAMRA

The 249 best pub interiors in London.

London taxi convoy carries WWII veterans to Dutch Liberation commemorations in Wageningen

Image credit: Taxi Charity Fourteen iconic London taxis transported eleven Second World War veterans, alongside volunteers and supporters from the Taxi Charity for Military Veteran...

Ceramic map of rail lines - Suburban

We're cheating a bit here.  This close-up photo shows the key from the System map which has an additional 3 items: Harbour for Yachts, Military Stations, Castles.