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2018/01/07

The British Transport Museum

The last place we visited while in the London area was The British Transport Museum.

Please forgive me if I make any mistakes and please feel free to send me a message if I have made any. I'll update this post with any corrected info. 

This is a horse-drawn tram.

Model of a horse tram. 

The lower level of the museum

Model showing what it was like building the subway.
Streets were ripped out to put in the underground subway and then they rebuilt the street. This method is called "cut and cover."

Steam engines were used underground for the first forty years. The quality of air was really poor in the tunnels. 

Inside the cab of the steam engine

This was one of the first electric locomotives for the underground.

Inside one of the carriages. 

The outside of the cab car

Here is another view of the lower level of the museum

On the left is a multiple unit train (it had more than one motor) and on the right are two doubledecker buses. 

The engine of one of the first deep level locomotives.
It is called 'deep level' because it runs about 15 stories underground.

One of the carriages.

Another carriage - but more modern

This was an account of what taking the underground was like in 1917.
Toronto in 2017 isn't that much different. 


One last picture of a doubledecker bus. 

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