Transport
Journey through our objects, stories and blogs connected to transport in London.
Blogs-And-Stories

King’s Cross Station: To Hogwarts & Edinburgh
It’s the terminus with links to “The North” and an orphaned boy wizard

London’s famous bridges
Bridges have helped Londoners cross the Thames for 2,000 years – here's the best of them


Building a Victorian underground railway
Henry Flather’s photos of the Metropolitan District Railway show a transport revolution in action

London buses: Red, iconic, double-decked
You wait for ages, then all you need to know about London buses comes along at once

What is the Cutty Sark?
How the speediest ship on the late 19th-century seas came to a standstill in Greenwich

What were London’s turnpikes?
In the 1700s and 1800s, travelling on London’s main roads came with a cost

Post-war photographs of the working River Thames
Sandra Flett’s snapshot of trade and industry on London’s liquid highway

When London moved by tram
Powered by horses, then electricity, London’s tram network was once the largest in the world

The sinking of the Princess Alice
Catastrophe struck on the River Thames in 1878 when a cargo ship collided with a tourist boat