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Collecting for 2013 – Oval Station’s Thought for the Day
Passengers using Oval station on the Northern line have come to appreciate the ‘Thought for the Day’ quotations put up by station staff in the main concourse. The innovative project began in 2004 and...
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Collecting for 2013 – Finchley Central’s Platform Garden
Mark Kirwin, a supervisor at Finchley Central, has created a colourful, award-winning garden on one of the station’s platforms. Practically single-handed he has transformed a derelict piece of ground...
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Collecting for 2013 – North Acton’s Station Garden
Two supervisors at North Acton station have created an award-winning garden that provides all-year-round colour to the delight of passengers. The Central Line station’s glorious displays scooped first...
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Collecting for 2013 – Oyster card holder swap shop
What does your Oyster card holder mean to you? Did you get it for free, buy it especially, or receive it as a gift? Do you use it as a wallet or just to keep your Oyster card safe? Oyster wallets come...
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Collecting for 2013 – Women and the Tube
The role that women play at Transport for London, and in particular London Underground, was one of the themes the Museum wanted to explore during this year’s collaborative collecting project. TfL...
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Collecting for 2013 – Caledonian Road station’s whiteboard artist
It’s not every London Underground worker who has a song written and recorded about her, but that’s what has happened to Kim Kalan. The bubbly customer service assistant at Caledonian Road station,...
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Collecting for 2013 – The end of the A Stock
Over the past couple of years, brand new snazzy trains have begun to appear on the Metropolitan Line. These S Stock trains are gradually being added to the London Underground system, replacing the 50...
View ArticleMap as Inspiration – ThinkQuest Japan
Another of the brilliant projects who took part in our Map as Inspiration project was that of Shota Kuroki and the ThinkQuest team from Kanagawa University High School in Japan. Shota and his team are...
View ArticleMap as Inspiration – Undergrounding London
In 2009, Antonio Cortés, an English language teacher from Colegio Cardenal Spínola school in Spain, got in touch with the Museum to tell us about his project ‘Undergrounding London’. Since our first...
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Tube Station Artist’s First Show Held At Busworks
Last year Caledonian Road station customer services assistant Kim Kalan brightened up the ticket hall at the station with her intricate whiteboard drawings, often with accompanying messages and...
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