On 23 Nov, 14:48, Ian Jelf wrote:
Has anyone been to the London Transport Museum since it re-opened?

I'm having an unusually long period of Not Being In London and won't be
able to visit until Wednesday. I wonder if anyone has any positive (or
otherwise!) Things to say about what we have to see for two years of
closure?

I went this afternoon. A few observations:
- There is an Oyster pad on the ticket counter. I didn't ask about
using it. Freedom passes get you free entry which might be what it's
for.
- They send you up to the second floor first where the horse drawn
buses are. There's a promising attempt here to put things in
chronological order and actually tell the story. But there's a weird
narrow passageway down the side of this bit covering early railway
history which is really easy to miss. No idea what the thinking is,
but the exhibit itself is good.
- The mezzanine floor is basically unchanged, but the signs saying
what things are have been replaced with touchscreen kiosks, which are
great but why not have signs too?
- The ground floor is the same confused mess of a handful of random
buses and half arsed exhibits. There are far fewer vehicles and more
gallery type things, but they still haven't figured out how to present
this stuff well.
- They have one side of one section of the 2009 stock mockup, which is
a bit pointless.
- The centrepiece giant projection map is mindnumbingly dull.
- There's an excellent animated tube map by year behind the 1938
stock.
- The buses are a B type, a trolleybus, an RM, something 80s, an old
Green Line, and the front four feet of a modern double decker. Can't
be more specific (see why they need nice big signs with the names of
things?)
- There's a mockup Jubilee/Northern cab with BVE inside (or so said
the error messages, as it was broken).

So still a bit rubbish. Highlight for me was spending some time in the
little reading library with the legendary Rails Through The Clay
(complete with photos of the hoardings for Enfield West and
Nightingale Lane tube stations).

U