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

• 10% discount on entry to Acton Depot Open Days

• 10% discounts on most Museum events and priority booking for Hidden London tours

• 10% discount on most purchases from Museum shops at Covent Garden, Acton Depot and on-line

• An extensive programme of meetings and visits 

• Quarterly award-winning Friends' magazine - Click Here

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

Recent key project achievemrnts are:

• Major milestones achieved with the Q stock restoration.

• Curatorial Assistant post funded and appointed.

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

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

• 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

​From 2026, Friends' support to London Transport Museum  projects will be focussed on:

• Completing the Q-stock restoration

• Heritage bus operations

• Heritage bus restoration

• LTM 50: upgrading the visitor experience at the Covent Garden Museum in time for its 50th anniversary.

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