I've been waiting for this weekend with mounting anticipation since I first heard about it in July.  Once a year, the London Transport Museum's Depot in Acton opens its door to all and sundry.  The imagination runs wild...somewhere in deepest Acton there's a warehouse stuffed with all manner of transport-related heavy machinery, equipment, street furniture, signage, posters, and any other unknown bits and bobs, scale models and sundry peculiarities that have a home nowhere else. 

It was too good to miss...and from posting about it here, it seemed I was not the only one getting excited at the idea of playing with the old trains.  However, by a joyful failure of  joined up thinking, Transport for London have scheduled engineering works that takes out the  Piccadilly Line is westbound between Hammersmith and Acton Town this weekend, meaning anyone travelling to the Depot has to figure out the bus replacement service.  Just genius...

...still even with this extra hiccup I still arrive before anyone else I'm scheduled to meet.  I queue in the drizzle with all the other enthusiasts and watch the miniature steam tube  puff up and down...


An absolutely a wonderful day - I can't wait to go again next year.  And as we discovered on the way out, there's tube signage outside, so I'm claiming this as a special bonus stop.