London

2025 Oct 15
1:00pm BST

Signalling Equipment Restoration Team

Scope

This visit is to the Signalling Equipment Restoration Team at LT Museums' Depot. The Team of volunteers are working to restore some of the more traditional items of LT signalling equipment.

The main items currently being worked on are a ‘B’ style power frame, an ‘N’ style power frame and an ‘N’ style push/pull power frame. Other items are a ‘V’ style interlocking frame now operating under EP push button control, two internally illuminated train describer signs, plus some ancillary items.

2025 Sep 11
5:30pm BST

Steve's summertime talk

Talk synopsis

The Society's Annual General Meeting will be followed by a talk on the Evolution of the European Train Control System (ETCS). The Digital Railway initiative is undertaking the deployment of the European Rail Traffic Management System across the UK network in the coming decades. Since the start of the Cambrian project in 2006, the industry has made great steps in refining ETCS technology and understanding its deployment.

Speakers
Steve Wilson
2025 Nov 11
5:30pm GMT

Steve's wintertime talk

Talk synopsis

The largest part of London Underground is not in fact - underground. 

How does LU cope with conditions of ice, snow, fog, leaf-fall and the other difficulties of operating a surface railway in wintertime?

Speakers
Steve Wilson
2025 Aug 26
5:30pm BST

Restoration of Q-Stock

Talk synopsis

London Transport Museum is restoring a 1930s District line train into operational condition. The work is done by volunteers at the Museum Depot.

Restoring into operational condition is a fine balancing act between authenticity, originality and modern safety requirements. The challenges are varied, and include for example different operating current, unavailable materials, questions of which paint to use, which moquette pattern is correct, and variations over the train cars’ long service life.

Speakers
Katariina Mauranen
2025 Aug 14
10:00am BST

Greenwich Power Station

Scope

Greenwich Power Station is London Underground’s single remaining source of non-National Grid electricity. It is used as a standby power station available as a back-up electricity supply for the London Underground. Originally a coal-fired power station, Greenwich was built between 1902 and 1910 in order to supply electricity to the London Tram Network. Today electricity is generated by eight Rolls Royce Avon gas turbine engines which were installed between 1967 and 1972.

2000 Feb 23
5:15pm GMT

The Millennium Transit

Talk synopsis

The Millennium Transit is a guided bus link to the Millennium Dome that uses an automated control system and guideway technology embedded in the road. It is similar to that used by emergency vehicles in the Channel Tunnel. The presentation gave an overview of the project and explained the technology used.

Speakers
Juli Boyle
2008 Feb 20
5:30pm GMT

Olympics

Talk synopsis

On 27th July 2012 the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the 30th Olympiad will be held in London. Over the following sixteen days of competition approximately 7.7 million spectators are expected to attend the events at the 33 different competition venues.

The Olympic Games will be followed two weeks later by the Paralympic Games, which, whilst being roughly one-third the scale of the Olympic Games, is also one of the world’s largest sporting events.

Speakers
Allan Gooch, Andy Jones