The London Transport Museum Friends support the Museum and its aim of conserving and interpreting London's transport heritage. We provide resources to help the Museum offer people an understanding of the capital's past;  and to engage them in the debate about its future.

Details of our support for Museum projects will be found below.

As well as our support to the Museum, we offer a wide range of benefits to our members, including:

• Free entry to the Museum at Covent Garden for 12 months

• Free or concessionary entry to Acton Depot Open Weekends

• Discounts and priority booking for Museum events, including Hidden London tours

• An extensive programme of meetings and visits 

• A quarterly magazine - Click Here

For further details of membership, please go to the Get Closer section and watch the video below.

Key project achievemrnts in 2024 are:

• Major milestones achieved with the Q stock restoration.

• Curatorial Assistant post funded and appointed. Funding provided for additional post.

• Support for the refurbishment of a three car Cravens train.

• Joint funding with the Omnibus Society to digitalise the LGOC Minute books

• Support for London Bus Musuem restoration of T357

• Emergency funding to the Museum to allow Inspire Engineering project to continue

• Continued support for vehicle restoration, repairs, and heritage pperations

• Renovation and improvements to exhibits at Covent Garden

• New display & storage equipment installed for Friends’ shop at Acton

The Friends also promote London’s rich transport heritage by harnessing our members’ enthusiasm through our events, magazine and online communications.

As a separate charity from the Museum, the Friends have their own board of trustees and an unpaid management team of people drawn from inside and outside the capital’s transport system.

THE TRUSTEES THE MANAGEMENT TEAM