London Transport Museum - Acton Town Depot

London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is the proud home of one of the most comprehensive and important records of urban transport anywhere in the world. Yet the galleries in Covent Garden are able to display only a fraction of the Museum's remarkable collections.

As well as vehicles and railway rolling stock, the Museum's wider collections boast a huge range of historic and artistic material including: 16 000 posters by some of the world's most famous artists from 1908 to the present; 100 000 black and white photographs documenting London's social history; nearly one million feet of original archive film; engineering drawings; uniforms; clocks; signs; tickets and other ephemera. Behind the scenes lies an important library containing the story of London's public transport.

Now, for the first time in the museum’s history, the 370 000 items not currently on display are together under one roof where they are being properly stored, catalogued and made available to public view. Just half an hour on the Piccadilly line from the Museum in Covent Garden, the Museum Depot at Acton Town provides a secure, environmentally controlled store in which curators can work to preserve our heritage for future generations.

The Depot's main purpose is to act as a working museum store. However, the building is open to the public on a limited basis through regular guided tours and open days.
Awarded to Executive Secure Services in April 2002, our contract is to provided suitably trained, motivated vetted security officers to assist the museum staff managing building management systems, fire warning systems, security systems, whilst carrying out the routine tasks of patrol monitoring, pedestrian access control, vehicle access control, parking management, visitor monitoring