01 Prologue – Peter Hendy

02 Director’s summary

04 The Museum at Covent Garden

05 The Covent Garden Project

14 Stakeholder news

16 A Museum for learning

18 Recent acquisitions

19 Museum overview

20 The Friends of London’s Transport Museum

21 The Friends Corporate Members 2005–2006

22 Museum staff 2006

24 The Museum Depot, Acton Town

25 Museum operating accounts 2003–2006

26 Museum programme 2003–2006

28 Outside events 2003–2006

The Museum’s collections are a constant reminder that over

the past two centuries, transport has been key to supporting

London’s position as a world city. Transport has been essential

to both promote and respond to the vitality and viability of

London. Understanding and assimilation of that transport

heritage is a great challenge for a modern, civilised city. Our

Museum enables us to both look back and look forward at

London, to respect the influence of the past and to see the

perennial importance of transport to this great city as it moves

further into the 21st Century.

Peter Hendy

Commissioner of Transport for London (TfL)

By conserving and explaining the capital city’s transport heritage, London’s Transport Museum offers people an understanding of the capital’s past development and engages them in the debate about the future. We adopt the highest standards of curatorship and communication, and aim to be the world’s leading museum of urban transport.

London’s Transport Museum operates two sites, at Covent Garden and Acton, offers online access to information and collections, and manages the Safety and Citizenship Initiative for Transport for London. The Covent Garden site is currently closed for a £20m refurbishment and enlargement, reopening in late summer 2007. The new Museum will:

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Create a theatre for the public understanding of transport in the complex life and identity of London, past, present and future.

Redefine the concept of a narrative history museum as a forum for information and debate about London’s past, present and future.

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The three years April 2003 – March 2006 have been a time of great upheaval as the foundations, both conceptual and physical, have been laid for the refurbished Museum in Covent Garden. Despite the work this has involved, the Museum managed to stay open to visitors until September 2005, achieving high customer satisfaction ratings until it closed its doors.

The old displays, which we had

nurtured for 362 days-a-year

since December 1993 – fixing

technical faults, cleaning in

the small hours after events,

keeping up-to-date – were

demolished with almost undue

haste in autumn 2005. The

low-loader made a regular

appearance in Wellington

Street as historic vehicles

were hauled off to Acton and

van loads of exhibits were

followed by skip loads of

redundant displays.

Then the business of stripping

back the building to a Victorian

market hall began in earnest.

As fittings and fixtures were

removed, the historic building

re-emerged. High scaffolding

allowed us to access areas of

the roof and structure that we

have not been able to reach

before, and to discover and

replace corroded cast-iron and

damaged roof slates.

This once-in-a-lifetime project

has been documented by our

own photographers and by the

artist Bruce Rowling, whose

Decant Sketchbook has given

us a unique perspective on

the transformation process.

We are indebted to him,

sketching patiently and

discreetly in the shadows as

around him turmoil reigned.

This Review features his work.

Meanwhile the Museum has

been a hive of activity. The

detailed designs of the new

structures – mezzanine floor,

the lecture theatre in the

basement, shop, corporate

hire spaces, photo-voltaic

panels on the roof – have

been through many iterations.

The storyline of the new

Museum has been written

and refined endlessly, objects

selected from our collections

and borrowed from others,

ideas tested on focus groups,

and designs developed. Costs

have been reviewed, revised

and questioned to extract

the maximum value from

our spend.

The new Museum will be a

showcase for TfL and everyone

engaged in or using London’s

transport. We have been

successful in promoting our

future vision of the Museum

to supporters, sponsors and

partners across London.

The new Museum will be a

platform for an unprecedented

programme of exhibitions and

events, reflecting the past

and the future of transport

in London.

Although the Museum will not

re-open until the summer of

2007, the key decisions and

much of the design will have

been completed by the time

this Review is published. The

next year will pass very quickly

and we all look forward to

reopening the doors of a

revitalised, popular museum.

Sam Mullins

Director,

London’s Transport Museum

No museum can stand still – and certainly not a museum devoted

to the dynamic story of London’s transport. The Museum opened

in Covent Garden in 1980, and since then more than 5 million

people have visited us. We had a major redisplay in 1993, opened

the Depot at Acton to the public in 1999, and have developed a

website that 50,000 people and rising visit a month.

The Covent Garden Project is the next chapter in the story. A major part

of the project is creating new displays to attract first-time visitors from

London’s diverse populations, as well as appealing to people who

already know and love London’s Transport Museum. We are also

renovating our Grade II-listed Flower Market building, making it a better

environment for exhibits and visitors alike, while creating more space for

a theatre, larger shop and café.

Key elements:

• construction of a new mezzanine gallery over the existing train table

• creation of a new basement and mezzanines incorporating a 122-seat

theatre and a larger shop and café

• a new exhibition with 3000 square metres of new displays

• radical improvement of the building’s environmental performance.

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05London’s Transport Museum is a museum for everyone.

Between April 2003 and September 2005 when we closed for

refurbishment, we welcomed almost 600,000 people from

London, the UK and abroad through our doors. Half of these

visitors were female, and a third under 16. More than 25,000

school children visited us each year, while we go out to a

further 90,000 young people as part of our outreach programme.

To achieve all this, the museum opened for seven days a week,

362 days-a-year. We try very hard to be accessible to all our

visitors, from wherever they come.

Our major refurbishment of the Covent Garden site will take

this even further. We hope to attract at least a further 40,000

visitors a year when we reopen. So as well as working with

transport historians, designers, architects, disability and access

consultants and all the other people who go into making a new

museum, we have been talking to our visitors. We are proud to

have consulted more than 10,000 people in the run-up to our

redevelopment, which has helped us to determine how best to

bring the story of London’s transport history alive.

the museumat covent garden

project

No museum can stand still, not

least a transport museum

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The Museum has set six objectives

for the Covent Garden Project.

They are:

• to tell the story of London as

an international city, seen

through the development of

its transport, past, present

and future

• to make more imaginative use

of the Museum’s designated

collections

• be physically, intellectually

and culturally accessible to

all visitors

• to promote learning about

London, safety and citizenship

• to create a unique, enjoyable

experience

• to sustain both the Museum

building and organisation.

We need to set objectives so we

know where we are going and how

to measure our progress.

The Museum believes that that

the Covent Garden Project will

help increase our visitors by

40,000 people a year, 10,000 of

them from overseas. It will make

the collections physically and

intellectually easier to access, and

attract new people from

different backgrounds. It lets us

create a lively forum on the past,

present and future roles of public

transport in London, better

reflecting the remit of Transport

For London and make informed

international comparisons.

The Project will increase the

overall floor area of the Museum

by a quarter. We hope to use this

much-needed extra space to

make visiting a more enjoyable

experience not only by improving

our displays but other facilities

such as the shop, café, education

rooms and private dining, thereby

We will use the much-needed extra space to

make a visit a more enjoyable

experience

What we hope to achieve and why

raising our average visitor

satisfaction score by 5 points

to 85.

The Project will also allow us to

improve the internal environment

of the Museum, so we can bring

more of our fragile collections

onto display while saving energy

through passive climate control

systems and alternative fuel

sources.

And finally, we believe it will make

us financially more sustainable.

The Museum has forecast

significant increases in retail

income, admissions and corporate

events as a result of this Project.

It lets us create a lively forum on the past, present and future roles of public transport in London

The Covent Garden Project

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We are mindful of our duty to London’s

environment at a time of

climate change

The new galleries will show how public

transport makes London a vital and viable city

Other displays will allow visitors to encounter the world’s first

underground steam and electric tube railways. It will introduce some

surprising and influential people, as well as presenting an enormous

scale model of London, which visitors can use to explore the city.

The final galleries will look at the future of London transport, and

some future scenarios and visionary proposals.

A better environment for everyone

Improving the environment of the building was a major concern for us.

There are many objects that the Museum cannot show because they are

vulnerable to the large swings in both temperature and humidity we

currently experience in our building. We were also anxious not to drive

up running costs as we added 25 per cent to the floor space of the

Museum. And like all responsible organisations, we are mindful of our

duty to London’s environment at a time of climate change.

The designs will reduce the Museum’s energy consumption and carbon

emissions. This will be achieved by:

• adding insulation to reduce heat loss, and shading the roof to reduce

light levels and heat gain

• creating natural ventilation by putting photo-voltaic panels on the

roof, which will generate up to 17% of our electrical needs.

The Energy Saving Trust (funded by the DTI) has provided a £120,000

grant towards the inclusion of the ‘solar’ panels. The London Climate

Change Agency has approached the Museum to make it a high profile

showcase for the use of photo-voltaic power generation and other low

CO2 emission technology. The Mayor of London has expressed his

support and in March Westminster City Council awarded planning

consent for the photo-voltaic scheme to proceed.

The Covent Garden Project will usher in a new style of narrative history

museum, drawing together collections and mixed media which will

acknowledge that people learn in different ways. The displays will tell

the story of London’s transport through individuals and their

experiences, exploring the influence of the past on both the present and

the future of our city.

The new Museum will include 3000 square metres of displays about the

social history, growth and development of London and its transport over

the past 200 years, as well as comparisons with other ‘world’ cities. The

opening gallery, the World City Gallery, will show how public transport

allows cities such as London, New York, Paris, Delhi, Shanghai and Tokyo

to stay on the move.

The Covent Garden Project

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A grand day out

There’s more to a museum visit than new displays, even if they are the

heart of the experience. Modern museums need good facilities, and

visitors’ expectations of these keep rising.

The Project includes a new shop spread over two floors, with an

expanded range of the Museum’s world-famous gifts, posters, toys,

models and souvenirs. There will be a smart café developed with

Searcy’s, serving coffee, lunches and suppers. The seating for the café,

designed by Lumsden Design Partnership, will feature a reworking of a

favourite old moquette seat fabric design.

The new Cubic Theatre in the basement, is a 122-seat lecture space

for talks and conferences, while our education facilities will be

substantially upgraded.

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You can come to shop and eat as well as visit

the Museum

In autumn 2004, the Museum

selected Wates as the main contractor

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The state of the building

As work has progressed Wates discovered that vital repairs to the

historic structure were required. These extra works, started in October

2005, have added both time and costs to the Project. Although this is

unwelcome, the works provide a once in a life-time opportunity to repair

the listed structure.

Developing displays

The exhibition has reached final scheme design, and tendering started in

July 2006. Fraser Randall was appointed in July 2005 as the Exhibition

Contracts Manager. The Museum team, working with Ralph Appelbaum

Associates, has been researching, designing and developing content for

the new Museum for three years. Supporters and partners have also

contributed, and extensive public research has informed the new

displays. Outline script and photo research are almost complete and

graphic art-working has commenced.

The opening

The building work will be completed by January 2007. The exhibition fit-

out will take approximately six months, with the Museum reopening to

the public in late summer 2007.

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Museum team

Director

Sam Mullins

Director’s PA

Liz Collins

Project Director/Head of Design

and Displays

Belinda Betts

Project Coordinator

Julie Vince (April 2004)

Project Assistant

Vicki Goodfellow (October 2005)

Head of Business and

Performance

Chris Gilbert (March 2005)

Head of Systems and

Infrastructure

Rob Lansdown

Head Curator

Oliver Green

Head of Learning

Julia Fielding (May 2006)

Head of Marketing

Claire Ingham

Retail Manager/Art Co-ordinator

Michael Walton

Advisors to London’s

Transport Museum

Project Development

Geoffrey Marsh (Adrian Ellis

Associates)

The timetable

The contractor

In autumn 2004, the Museum selected Wates as the main contractor.

Wates went on site in April 2005 to get ready, and formally took

possession on 24 October 2005.

The archaeology

During the excavation of the basement starting in April 2005, the

Museum carried out an archaeological excavation of the site. The Covent

Garden area was part of Middle Saxon London, or Lundenwic, around

600-800AD. For centuries the area remained undeveloped, until it

passed into the estate of the first Earl of Bedford, who had served Henry

VIII. The Bedford family developed the site as an exclusive residential

quarter and promoted the fruit and flower market. The excavation

unearthed 17th and 18th century structures, pots, bottles and a

possible bath house, as well as a number of cremation urns, beads and

two burials from the middle Saxon period. A report on the findings is

due shortly.

The Museum closes

The last public open day for the Museum was 4 September 2005.

The Museum team started a five-week decant of the collections to

the Depot.

The Project Team

The Project is overseen by the Museum’s Director. It is managed by a

Project Director and the extended management team of the Museum,

with advisors and an external consultant team. The team is currently

made up of:

Construction Advice

Jim Evans (Epsilon Management

Services)

Fundraising

Judy Niner (Development

Partners)

Audience Research

Susie Fisher (Susie Fisher

Associates)

Legal Advice

Richard Cooke (Hammonds)

Exhibition Content

Stephen Feber

Design Gallery Curator

David Worthington

(Conran Design Partnership)

Design team

Architects

Avery Associates Architects

Exhibition Designers

Ralph Appelbaum Associates

(London)

Artwork Production

London’s Transport Museum

Design Team

Project Management

Drivers Jonas

Quantity Surveyors

Walfords

Environmental and M&E

Consultants

Max Fordham

Structural Engineers

Buro Happold

Retail and Café Design

Lumsden Design Partnership

Building Contractor

Wates Construction Limited

Specialist consultants

Access

All Clear Designs

Lighting

DHA Design

Acoustic

Sandy Brown Associates

Sound Consultant

Martin Pilton Sound Design

Building Regulations

Approved Inspector Services

Building Conservation

Donald Insall Associates

Café and Shop Designers

Lumsden Design Partnership

Café Contractor

Searcys

Editorial panel

The panel, chaired by Belinda

Betts, is the final decision-making

body on the exhibition content,

style and approach. It includes

many of the Museum team and

the following:

2D Curator

David Bownes

Registrar/Content Coordinator

Martin Harrison-Putnam

Lifelong Learning Manager

John Bull

Education Officer (Schools)

Heather Johnston

Librarian

Caroline Warhurst

Stakeholder Relations Executive

Justine Cooper

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The £20m+ Covent Garden Project would not have been possible

without the support of many partners in the transport industry.

We are very grateful for their help.

In July 2003 the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) awarded the Project

£9.47m in two stages. Transport for London (TfL) immediately

pledged a further £5.1m if the Museum raised an additional £5m

from industry, trusts and foundations.

The Museum has raised a further £3.6m from sponsors, trusts and

foundations. Tube Lines and Metronet Rail, the Museum’s Principal

Sponsors, have given nearly £1m and are our largest commercial

sponsors. Trusts and foundations have pledged a further £700,000.

Viacom Outdoor has sponsored the Museum’s new Viacom Outdoor

Gallery and Cubic Transportation Systems the new 1220-seat Cubic

Theatre. The Luke Rees-Pulley Trust is funding elements aimed at

children. On top of that, the Friends of the Museum, made up of 68

corporate partners, have given £700,000.

Tube Lines, Metronet Rail, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Toyota, Capita, Corus

and EDS have become Future Partners, working with the Museum on a

new 18-month exhibition Visions for London’s Future, which will launch

the Museum in summer 2007.

Network Rail is sponsoring

content in three galleries to

enable the Museum to represent

all areas of public transport

within London, including the

main-line rail story. Many of the

country’s top bus operators and

manufacturers have become

Content Partners, supporting

the development of historic

content and acting as advisors

for the industry in the Museum’s

new contemporary and futures

galleries.

The Museum’s list of supporters is drawn from across the transport

industry. We would like to thank all our partners:

Heritage Lottery Fund

Transport for London

The Friends of London’s

Transport Museum

Tube Lines Ltd

Metronet Rail

Garfield Weston Foundation

Museums and Galleries

Improvement Fund

Viacom Outdoor Ltd

Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd

Network Rail

Luke Rees-Pulley Trust

Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd

SAP UK Ltd

Toyota (GB) plc

Axon Group plc

Capita

Corus

Energy Saving Trust

EDS Ltd

Biffaward Landfill Tax

Credit scheme

EvoBus (UK) Ltd

Peek Traffic Ltd

National Express Group plc

Alexander Dennis Ltd

Arriva London Ltd

Conran Design Group

FirstGroup plc

Hammonds

Hyder Consulting plc

London Central/London General

(Go-Ahead)

McNicholas plc

Metroline-a member of

ComfortDelGro

Ringway Group Ltd

Stagecoach in London

Transdev plc

Volvo Bus Ltd

Wrightbus Ltd

4-Rail

‘Tube Lines is working on the largest upgrade programme ever seen on the Tube. We are delighted to partner with London’s Transport Museum and welcome an involvement with its major project to transform the Covent Garden site. As Principal Sponsor, we are already working closely with the Museum on new displays which will take a fresh and exciting look at what will be happening in the future for transport in the Capital, including our own visions for delivering an outstanding Tube for London.’Terry Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, Tube Lines

Other stakeholder activitiesIn 2004 the Museum worked with Crossrail and Bombardier

Transportation on a design initiative with London schools. Viacom

Outdoor has collaborated with the Museum on three projects funded

by the Arts and Business New Partners scheme. The Copyrighting Goes

Underground competition encouraged 150 young professional

copyrighters to optimise use of cross-track Underground poster sites,

winning an award at Viacom for its best initiative of 2005. In 2006, two

poster design competitions challenged 200 students across London to

create artwork for an advertising campaign launching the new Museum.SAP UK, Axon Group, Peek

Traffic, McNicholas and

Ringway Group have provided

sponsorship that supports the

entire redevelopment project.

Conran Design Group, Hammonds

and 4-Rail have offered in-kind

support to the Project. David

Worthington, the Managing

Director of Conran Design Group,

is the Curator of the new Design

Gallery and his company is

currently designing the Museum’s

World City gallery.

‘Cubic Transportation Systems has been providing ticketing systems to London Transport for 30 years. Through the introduction of the Oyster card system, equipment and gating, Cubic has initiated a change in how people travel around London. We are proud to support the Museum and in particular the Cubic Theatre and the activities it will enable in the future.’Marcus Platts, Finance Director, Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd

In total we have successfully

secured more than £13m for the

Project and TfL’s support has

taken this to £18.1m. A Covent

Garden dinner and auction will be

held on 20 September, at the

Floral Hall at the Royal Opera

House, as part of an ongoing

fundraising programme.

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£9.45 millionHeritage Lottery Fund grant

£5.1 millionTransport for London(pledged on the provision the Museum raises the remainder from industry)

£0.7 millionThe Friends of London’s Transport Museum

£3.03 millionStakeholders and sponsors

£1.72 million

Funds already raisedFunding still required

An important role for London’s Transport Museum is to act as a forum for the transport industry. It is also the place where the public can learn about plans for the future, in galleries that demonstrate the new investment in transport since 2000.

‘London Underground has a great history as borne out by the old museum and we’re here to ensure it has a great future too. Tomorrow’s museum will look forward as well as back at the transport challenges faced by the capital and I’m pleased to see Metronet supporting the project.’Andrew Lezala, Chief Executive, Metronet Rail

‘The new London’s Transport Museum will be state of the art and,

like much of the transport system itself, something for the world to

look up to. Viacom Outdoor is delighted to sponsor the Museum’s

new Gallery and associate ourselves with the rich design heritage of

the collection as we feel advertising imagery is fundamental to the

whole look and feel of London’s transport system. We are currently

involved in several joint educational initiatives which stimulate young

people’s creativity and interest in advertising, art and design. We look

forward to using the Museum’s new corporate hospitality space to

host regular events and competitions.’

Mike Baker, European Marketing Director, Viacom Outdoor Ltd

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• New sessions at the Museum’s Depot – for Key Stage Two

(7-11 year old) schoolchildren launched in early 2006. These

combine object handling and costumed interpreters, giving

children a unique take on our historic collections.

• In total, 15,016 pupils from 479 schools attended education

sessions at the Museum. The Resource Desk dealt with 6,600

enquiries in the period. The Safety and Citizenship Team worked

directly with an audience of 142,000 children.

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Learning and education are at the heart of London’s Transport Museum. We are conscious

that different people learn in different ways, so we constantly need to develop new ways

to present our collections and knowledge. Recent developments include:

We are constantly developing new ways to present our collections

and knowledge

• The Museum Library – which holds the most comprehensive

collection about transport development in London, including its social

history. It is used by everyone from design students to people

researching their family histories. It had a major revamp in early 2006

making it easier to use and a more pleasant to work in.

• Family sessions in local libraries – families have enjoyed

discovering the history of London’s transport using objects such as

ticket machines, hats, maps and photographs. We have also run craft

sessions, teaching children to build model vehicles similar to those

in our collection. Other activities have included reminiscence sessions

at homes for the elderly using a handling collection as well as books

and photographs.

• TfL Safety and Citizenship – based at London’s Transport Museum,

this TfL scheme promotes safe travel on and around the public

transport network. Children are especially vulnerable to transport

accidents. The team has developed a programme aimed primarily at

11-year-old children to prepare them for independent travel. It also

works with a number of secondary schools to address existing

transport problems. A website has been created (www.tfl.gov.uk

citizenship) to provide activities for children as well as materials for

teachers. From April 2006 the service will work with all 11-year-old

children in Greater London every year (approximately 113,000 children).

18When the new museum opens in 2007 there will be more than twice as

many objects from the collections on display at Covent Garden.

Acquisitions help us to tell new stories and develop themes that the old

museum was unable to explore in the past.

The Museum is reviewing its collecting policy in 2006 as part of its

submission for the new Accreditation scheme run by the Museums

Libraries and Archives Council.

Among the new pieces that will be on display are:

• A poster proof: Waterloo Station - Peace, by Helen Madeline McKie,

1948 (see below).

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and day-to-day operations at the Museum, in line with policies and

plans approved by the TfL Board.

The Museum is Registered and is an active member of the London Museums

Hub, Association of Independent Museums, Museums Association and

British Association of Friends of Museums.

Members of staff are also active within the Covent Garden Area Trust, the

Covent Garden Community Liaison Group, the Transport Trust, the 24 Hour

Museum, the Museum Prize Trust, the Campaign for Museums, the UK

Registrars Group, Museums Computer Group, London Museums Librarians

and Archives Council, International Association of Transport Museums,

Association of British Transport and Engineering Museums, West London

Museums Group, and a number of specialist subject networks, such as the

Special Subject Network for Inland Transport, London Underground Railway

Society and other transport-related associations, societies and trusts.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded a Collaborative

Doctoral Award for a doctoral student to produce a thesis entitled

Negotiating Urban Space: Public Transport, Migrant Strategies and Gender in

London 1950-2005, a partnership between London’s Transport Museum and

the geography department of King’s College London.

• Harry Beck’s 1951 proposal for the redesign of the Paris Metro map,

based on the same principles as his classic London Underground

diagram of 1933.

• A 1930s Tri-ang dolls house which will help to show the way inter-war

suburban housing development was shaped by transport. These

model houses were made by Lines Brothers, which opened the

biggest toy factory in the world near Morden in the 1920s.

• A detailed model of a London taxi converted to haul a water tender

for the London Fire Brigade during the Blitz, donated to the Museum

in 2004.

• A poster promoting the new Metropolitan Railway branch to Watford,

opened in 1925, fills a rare gap in the museum’s archive.

acquisitionsCollections are what make museums unique. At London’s

Transport Museum we were lucky to acquire a number of

significant objects to add to our collections in 2003-06.

London’s Transport Museum offers people an understanding of the capital’s past development and engages them in the debate about the future

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The Friends group is a registered charitable trust which provides

the Museum with sponsorship funding and volunteer help, as well

as allowing members to explore their interest in public transport.

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DIAMOND

Bombardier Transportation UK

CCS Group

EDF Energy Powerlink

Metronet Rail

PA Consulting Group

Westinghouse Rail Systems

GOLD PLUS

Capgemini

Deloitte

FirstGroup UK Bus

F P Herting & Son

Herbert Smith

Nuttall Finchpalm

GOLD

ALSTOM Transport – Metro Trains

AMEC SPIE Rail

Angel Trains

Arriva

Cadbury Trebor Bassett

Citylink Telecommunications

Cubic Transportation Systems

Eversheds

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Heathrow Express

HSBC

Hyder Consulting UK

Parsons Brinckerhoff

St Paul Travelers Insurance

telent communications

Tube Lines

SILVER

ABOUT

Advantage Technical Consulting

Aon

Ashurst

BEX Contracts

Birse Metro

Canary Wharf Group

ClearChannel UK

Ernst & Young

Field Fisher Waterhouse

Fifth Dimension Associates

Freight Transport Association

Gee Construction

Go-Ahead Group

Goldman Sachs International

Halcrow Group

KPMG

Lounsdale Electric

LTI (London Taxis International)

Vehicles

Manatt Phelps & Phillips

Mane Rail

Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw

Millcroft Services plc

Morgan Est Rail

Multiplex Constructions (UK)

Otis

Pemberwell Services

SGS Technology Project Services

Siemens

Stagecoach in London

Thames Water

Tone Scaffolding

Washington Group International

Wayfarer Transit Systems

YJL Infrastructure

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Felton Associates (Silver)

The Museum is fortunate in having an enthusiastic and supportive

Friends’ organisation of about 1600 individual members. Around 68

transport and transport-related companies are members of the

Corporate Friends (see opposite). The Friends group is the third largest

financial supporter of the Museum’s redisplay project, pledging

£700,000 in instalments over four years.

In May 2005, the Friends were delighted to see their past investment in

the restoration of the Museum’s 1931 LT Scooter single-decker win four

major trophies on its debut appearance in the HCVS London-to-Brighton

commercial vehicle run. The Friends have also secured a Project Planning

Grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to investigate the feasibility of

restoring four of the Museum’s Q-stock District Line cars (dating from

the 1920s-30s) to operational condition.

The Friends also provide volunteer support to the Museum, helping to

conserve, restore and maintain items in the Museum’s collections. In

February 2006, a dedicated, band of volunteers completed a four-year

project to catalogue and conserve the Museum’s black-and-white photo

collection. The Friends’ total donation of time and expertise amounts to

more than 10,000 hours in a year, equal to an additional six members of

staff. At a special event in December 2004, 30 Friends were presented

with certificates marking ten and, in four cases, 20 years of individual

voluntary effort.

Members benefit from an active programme of meetings and visits, and

an informative newsletter covering Friends’ activities and matters of

transport interest.

The Friends Corporate Members 2005–2006

The Friends are the largest donors

to the Museum’s redisplay project,

pledging £700,000 in instalments over

four years

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DirectorSam MullinsDirector’s Personal AssistantLiz CollinsMuseum Communications AssistantBunny Soteriou

Chairman of the Friends of London’s Transport MuseumIan ArthurtonCorporate Friends Liaison AssistantBecky Lee

Head of Business & Performance Chris GilbertFinance ManagerTerry NoonanFinance TraineeRufus Johnstone

Retail & Merchandise ManagerMike WaltonSenior Retail AssistantsTara BurnellJohn VinceRetail AssistantsDavid BashiSam HarrisonJohn Skinner

Head CuratorOliver GreenSenior Curator David BownesSenior Curator (vehicles)Bob BirdCuratorJonathan RiddellCurator (collections care)Robert ExcellCollections RegistrarMartin Harrison-Putnam

Curator (film & photographs)Simon MurphyCurator (photographs)Hugh RobertsonCurator (multimedia collections)Anna RotondaroCurator (photographs & ephemera)Timothy ShieldsCurator (Photos and Ephemera)Guy Howard-EvansDCF Project CuratorClaire Dobbin

Project Director/ Head of Design & DisplaysBelinda BettsProject Co-ordinatorJulie VinceProject AssistantVictoria Goodfellow

Design & Displays ManagerSau-Fun MokDesign Studio ManagerSuzanne DaviesDesignerSylvia Martin

Display Team SupervisorPaul LearyDisplay AssistantMichael Beagley

Head of Systems & InfrastructureRob LansdownNetwork Systems ManagerBryan WillsNetwork Support AnalystNeil EllliottCommunications Support AssistantPaul Trumble

Multimedia DeveloperCharles Dodgson

Depot ManagerRichard BenchDepot AssistantAlick Matthew

Head of MarketingClaire InghamMedia Relations ExecutiveLouise LeeStakeholder Relations ExecutiveJustine CooperMarketing & Group CoordinatorDawn RossEvents & Corporate Relations ExecutiveEmily Mitchell

Head of LearningJulia FieldingLifelong Learning ManagerJohn BullSchools OfficerHeather JohnstonInterpretation OfficerAnnette McCartneyInterpretation & Education AssistantFelicity PremruVolunteer CoordinatorJoanne Howe

Information Team SupervisorJanette PalmerMuseum Communications AssistantHannah MossInformation AssistantsGerald ArminMichael DipreMichael KitchenLesley Sullivan

TfL Safety & Citizenship ManagerChris NixEducation Liaison OfficerRebecca WakemanCarron LittlejohnOffice Support ManagerSonia BruceTechnical Assistant (Safety & Citizenship)Barry PriceAdministrative AssistantJarrod FlackSchool Liaison OfficersPeter ChallisHeather DoyleChad DunhamNivashnie PadayacheeLuke ReynoldsLindsey WhiteheadWilliam Wybrew

Library & Information Services ManagerCaroline WarhurstLibrarianHelen Kent

Head of Security & OperationsAllan BrookerSecurity Operations SupervisorStephen SeymourSecurity OperativesAaron GordonSarah HicksMike JaffaJim KnightGary StanburyGerald Underhill

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As the publicly accessible store for our heritage collection, the

Museum Depot in Acton preserves architectural fragments and

models, artwork, enamel signs, engineering drawings, maps,

moquette fabric, oral history recordings, photographic negatives,

rolling stock, posters, printed transport ephemera, uniforms

and vehicles.

The Depot with its large, open, humidity-controlled environment cares

for almost 98% of the Museum’s 400,000 items. It was opened in 1999

with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund. It offers 6500 square

metres of storage space for the Museum’s reserve collection half-an-

hour from Covent Garden.

The Depot is a treasure trove of London’s transport heritage. It has

regular themed open weekends, as well as viewings arranged as part of

our popular guided tour programme. The Depot is the focus for the

Museum’s invaluable volunteer force who provide assistance in

conservation and restoration, cataloguing, guided tours and research.

The Depot is also currently providing temporary accommodation for

most of the Museum’s collections from Covent Garden, while it is

closed for its major redevelopment project.

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25Financial Year ending see note (1) 31.03.06 31.03.05 31.03.04 31.03.03 Visitor Nos (000’s) 97.5 255.9 215.5 196.4 £000’s £000’s £000’s £000’sIncome Admissions 250 682 565 551 Retail 1213 1429 1354 1296 Commercial and Licensing (7) 0 391 404 363 Private Hire 35 127 54 106 Sponsorship 22 186 80 122 Other Income 155 190 82 224 Total income 1675 3005 2539 2662 Less Cost of Sales 1233 1213 1049 977 Trading Expenses 178 76 52 489 Total 1411 1289 1101 1466 Contribution to operating expenses 264 1716 1438 1196 Operating Expenses Museum Operations 1321 1931 1399 1254 Collections Management 692 603 555 539 Marketing 423 422 347 196 Administration 882 935 972 695 Building Accommodation Costs 879 1087 1252 1395 Total operating expenses 4197 4978 4525 4079 Deficit on Operations (2) -3933 -3262 -3087 -2883 Functions undertaken on behalf of TfL Group (6) 650 755 605 329 Net Deficit (3) -4583 -4017 -3692 -3212 Depreciation (4) 403 519 570 564 Covent Garden Project (5) Income -3608 -1200 0 0 Expenditure 3766 828 573 0

Net total 158 -372 573 0

The Depot is a treasure trove

of London’s transport heritage

Notes to operating accounts

Note 1 The Museum was closed to the public in September 2005 for refurbishment works and will not re-open until late summer 2007. However a retail presence was maintained via rental of a smaller unit in Covent Garden.

Note 2 The deficit represents the net cost of providing the Museum service including provision of the Transport For London statutory function with regard to elements of its heritage collection.

Note 3 The net deficit is equivalent to the agreed revenue grant provided through TfL by the GLA.

Note 4 In arriving at the deficit in Transport for London group annual accounts the depreciation charge is included.

Note 5 The Covent Garden project consists of capital works to completely refurbish and refit the entire Museum. The project is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, TfL and other 3rd party sponsors.

Note 6 This represents the revenue cost of functions managed by the Museum on behalf of TfL. This includes the protection of TfL intellectual property rights up to 31/03/2005, Safety and Citizenship and Art on the Underground programmes. In addition there were capital costs of £416k incurred against the Safety and Citizenship programme.

Note 7 The commercial and licensing department was transferred to TfL central at the end of financial year 2004/05.

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Exhibitions24 Hour London: BBC London photo competition16 April-8 June 2003Children’s Underground exhibition2 July-28 September 2003Artworks for all15 October 2003-4 January 2004SAA illustration awards 200428 January-14 March 2004Spring exhibition 31 March-6 June 2004StreetWise summer exhibition30 June-31 October 2004Bloomin’ marvellous exhibition17 November 2004-29 May 2005SAA illustration awards 200526 January-6 March 2005The word Underground exhibition7-30 June 2005It’s your city!13 July-21 August 2005

Events and activitiesThere is always something on at the Museum for families. During term-time, younger visitors can participate in colouring activities or gallery trails at weekends. A bumper activity programme is available in school holidays, including numerous craft workshops. Annually in August the Museum holds a Be Safe! Week with activities themed to teaching young people how to use public transport safely.

The Museum launched the Museum and Galleries Month at the London’s Transport Museum on 5 May 2004, the year of the 200th anniversary of the steam locomotive, 175 years of the bus and 50 years of the Routemaster. The national theme for 2004 was Travel and Travelling. The Museum has

since events annually in May, interpreting the national theme of Museums and Galleries Month. In 2005 these included interactive artefact sessions to celebrate the theme ‘Objects of Desire’ at Paddington Public Library and Brixton Central Library.

In 2004 there were live poetry performances throughout 2004’s programme as resident poet Abe Gibson celebrated the golden age of London’s electric trams with performances of his latest work.

Between 29 August and 4 September 2005 the Museum celebrated its final week before closure with a Bob the Builder Week, which offered the chance to meet Bob and become involved in a series of Bob the Builder themed activities throughout the Museum

Lectures, conferences and toursLondon through a lens28 April 2003The most famous map in the world6 May 2003A pictorial history of the metropolitan railway12 May 2003Fitness for purpose20 May 2003“Refrain from affectation and conceited airs…”15 September 2003Funding the Underground: a history22 September 2003Sun a-shine, rain a-fall – celebrating Black History MonthOctober 2003London Transport in the 1930s open weekend at the Depot, Acton4&5 October 2003 Lo

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Poetry alive21 October 2003Diwali storytelling29 October 2003Bus bits30 October 2003Word journeys25 November 2003Trickett & Webb: designing transport art1 December 2003Mind the doors, please!5 December 2003Yes, I am a public servant – and so is the Prime Minister!31 January 2004Betjeman’s Metro-land: “a city clerk turned countryman again”16 February 2004“He draws a lot, but he won’t speak!”2 February 2004You’re a poet – do you know it?21 February 2004London’s Transport in miniature open weekend at the Depot, Acton6&7 March 2004A history of the London cab trade22 March 2004Royal Society of Arts (RSA) 250th anniversary1 May-31 October 2004Metro maps of the world5 May 2004175 years of the London bus at the Depot, Acton5&6 June 2004Discover Metro-land10 June 2004 Word on the street, typography’s contribution to the language of architecture21 June 2004

Poetry alive22 June 2004History afloat7 July 2004A design for life Piccadilly style13 July 2004Let’s all go down the Strand21 July 2004Trains, trams and traffic18 August 2004History afloat8 September 2004Street star, designed for purpose: the Routemaster13 September 2004Yes, I am a public servant – and so is the Prime Minister! 26 September 2004London’s transport at war 9&10 October 2004Every day except Christmas8 December 2004London’s transport in miniature at the Depot, Acton26&27 February 2005The voices of New Babylon18 April 2005Tram tales8 May 2005‘The Great Square of Venus’: Covent Garden central and west2 June 200575th Anniversary of Green Line coaches at the Depot, Acton4&5 June 2004Canal cruise12 June 2005Cabbages and kings – the story of Covent Garden15 June 2005

Word on the street20 June 2005Piccadilly style22 June 2005Open most hours29 June 2005History afloat13 July 2005Green Line 75th anniversary summer outing17 July 2005‘London’s high street’21 July 2005‘The Great Square of Venue’: Covent Garden central and east10 August 2005Jubilee line tour18 August 2005Metro-land walk1 September 2005Taxis, tubes and Jews8 September 2005The subterranean railway13 September 2005Journeys of the heart4 October 2005Migration and modernity11 October 2005Family weekend at the Depot, Acton22&23 October 2005Keeping London moving – transport staff at war9 November 2005Metro maps and architecture of the world22 November 2005London’s transport in miniature at the Depot, Acton4&5 March 2006Tunnels, transport and trains at London Canal Museum28 March 2006

Lifelong learning study days and courses Adult Learners’ Week15-21 May 2004: A diverse range of participatory activities to introduce you to the Museum’s vast and unique transport collections.

Word journeys24 May 2005: Poetry writing and performance workshop for adults.

Transport women at war3 November 2005: Study day at The Women’s Library, Old Castle Street, E1.

Depot toursTours provide a unique insight into the Museum’s extensive collections and access to collections not normally on display to the public. They usually take place at 11.00 and 14.00 on the last Friday of every month (except December). During closure the Museum has also operated Depot tours on the last Saturday of every month.

Tours for visually impaired visitorsGallery touch tours suitable for all ages are available regularly for visitors with visual impairments or learning difficulties both at the Museum. These tours include special access to vehicles not usually accessible to the public.

British Sign Language interpreted toursRegular Depot guided tours are also available with British Sign language interpreters. If a BSL interpreter is required for any tours or talks at the Museum, this can be arranged on booking tickets for these events.

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Date Event Vehicle Event description

2003

6 April Cobham Museum open day RM1, K424 & S742 Special event with all available 1920s London buses

4 May London to Brighton run RCL2229 Historic commercial vehicle run

17&18 May Depot open weekend Open topper & RT 4712 Special service – Depot to Kew Pumping Museum

14 June Arriva RT4712

29 June North Weald RT4712 Enthusiast rally

27 July Worthing Rally and running day RT4712

2 August Fulwell Garage Open Day A1 Diddler & Q1 trolleybuses,

89Q, RM1, GS64, RCL2229,

RT4712, VA115

17 August Pump House Museum, Walthamstow RT4712 AEC bus rally

13 September Romford Garage open day RCL2229

13-15 September EATM Carlton Colville RCL2229 End of season event featuring London vehicles

4 October Depot open day Visiting London buses from 1930s

5 October Depot open day 1938TS Public runs from Ealing Common to Uxbridge

2004

11 April Cobham Museum open day RM1 VA115 Registered bus service: Cobham and Wisley

2 May London to Brighton run T219 (VA115 as tender) Historic commercial vehicle run

8 May Pump House Museum, Walthamstow RM1 AEC bus rally

4 June Last Routemaster day on route 8 RM1 Stagecoach East London commemorative run

5&6 June Depot open weekend RM1 + others Special service-Depot to Kew Steam Museum

20 June Friends run on 1938TS 1938TS Two afternoon runs Ealing to Uxbridge

26 June Holloway Garage open day RM1, T219 Holloway Garage open to the public

2 July Last Routemaster day on route 7 RM1 FirstBus commemorative run

4 July Uxbridge Met. Centenary 1938TS Two special runs: Uxbridge to Amersham

24&25 July Routemaster 50th event RM1, FRM1, RCL2229, Spectacular Routemaster buses from the

in Finsbury Park T219 & K424 London’s Transport Museums’ collection.

21 August Hounslow Garage Open Day VA115 Public open day

3 September Last Routemaster day on route 73 RM1 & FRM1 Arriva commemorative run

11&12 September EATM Carlton Colville RM1 End of year London trolleybus event

25 September 75th years of Omnibus Society K424, RM1, FRM1 Commemorative run from West Brompton

to Covent Garden

26 September Showbus at Duxford VA115, RM1 Major bus & coach rally at Imperial War Museum

17 October Northfleet BN61 Local public trips organised by Country Bus Rallies

31 October Cobham Museum open day FRM1 Registered bus service from Cobham Bus Museum

22 November Design Council RM1 Reception in courtyard at Buckingham Palace

26 November RATP visit FRM1 Tour of central & city sights

2005

28 January Last day of Routemaster on route 36 RM1 Commemorative run

3 April Cobham Museum open day RM1 Registered route: Cobham Bus Museum, Wisley

1 May London to Brighton Run LT1076 (VA115) Historic commercial vehicle run

4&5 June 75th Anniversary of Green Line Open weekend

coaches at the Depot Acton

25 June Waterden Road Garage open day RCL2229, MBA 582, BN61 1st Anniversary of bendy bus garage

10 July Country Bus Rallies GS64 Knockholt. Recreating local 1950/60s services

31 July Worthing Festival RM1 Charity event. Public trips to Lancing

10&11 September EATM Carlton Colville BN61 London Trolleybuses weekend

16 October Country Bus Rallies BN61, RCL2229 Northfleet. Green Line anniversary theme

22&23 October 2005 Family Weekend at the Depot Acton Open weekend

30 October Tribute to Routemaster day RM1 Cobham Bus Museum special event

2006

15 January St Albans public running day BN61 Country bus rally

4&5 March Open weekend, London’s Transport

in Miniature at the Depot Acton

The Heritage Lottery Fund has generously

given £9.47m to London’s Transport

Museum towards its Covent Garden Project

The Friends is a registered charitable trust.

It raises money for the Museum, provides

volunteers and helps Members to develop

their interest in urban passenger transport.

The Friends is one of the biggest supporters

of the Covent Garden Project

Tube Lines is a Principal Sponsor of

the Museum’s redevelopment, and the

largest commercial sponsor of the

Covent Garden Project

Metronet is a Principal Sponsor of the

Museum’s Covent Garden Project

A large print version of this review is available on our website:

www.ltmuseum.co.uk

The Friends of London’s Transport Museum

London’s Transport Museum is being

transformed as part of the Transport for

London Investment Programme

Illustrations

The Museum is grateful to

Bruce Rowling for his agreement

to allow the reproduction of

images from his Decant

Sketchbook series in this review.

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London’s Transport Museum

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