On Tuesday, artist Nils Norman will be giving a talk at London Transport Museum, discussing his public commissions and poster artworks, including 'Ideal City' and 'Fantasy Piccadilly Line' for Piccadilly Underground station and Piccadilly line trains. You and A.N.Other can be there for free by entering the no strings, no stress, no question, no problem giveaway below. We'll pick a winner on Monday lunchtime and notify them by email. You need to be able......

On Sunday, the London Transport Museum hosted the second of its semi-regular Heritage Train Days, between Harrow and Amersham. Having previewed it back in August, we were kindly invited along for the ride. The featured attraction, a 1938 Northern Line train, last saw regular service in the Seventies but has found itself a cosy retirement as a timepiece from the Tube's storied past. Within well-maintained red carriages, a mixture of epochs are found: period furnishings......

The LTM eBay auction closes this Sunday and to spur you on to part with your cash online they've slung in a couple of smashing extra lots. You can now bid to have tea at the Ritz with the gorgeously retro Puppini Sisters with tickets for their next gig thrown in. And, if you're unfortunate enough to be missing out on Heritage Train Day this weekend, you could bag an entire VIP carriage aboard......

Forget London on the Cheap for a minute. If you're a true London geek with a proper taste for public transport then you need to check the piggy bank and make sure your eBay account is active. London Transport Museum if having a big ole auction with some awesome lots, if you can bid big enough. A tour of the disused Aldwych tube station - of much film fame but no longer open to......

Because treasure hunts are proving to be excellent ways to meet new people, re-discover the city you love and generally pass the time in a novel way, we have not one but TWO treasure hunts to tell you about. First up: help look for little people this Sunday! Street artist Slinkachu has been leaving tiny hand-painted people around the city, creating minscule scenes of drama at the edge of puddles, under clumps of roadside......

Fed up of inner city weekends, packed tube trains and tourist filled streets? The London Transport Museum is offering you a flavour of gentler, more graceful travelling times with a "Heritage Day Out in Metro-Land". On Sunday 14 September, 2 historic trains will be shuttling the suburban journey between Harrow and Amersham. A 1938 art deco tube train will be returning to passenger service again for this special day out and the even older,......

Ever been in a position of directing your Black Cab driver to your destination? Now's your change to test your true knowledge tonight at the London Transport Museum's Knowledge Quiz. Quizmaster Derek O'Reilly from the Knowledge Point School will pose four sets of six questions with the themes of curiosities and history, famous Londoners, capital culture and city routes to challenge your A-Z acquaintance and London geekery good and proper. Kicking off at 18.45......

We're fond of scavenging for treasure and seem to spend many of our Sundays looking for the stuff, so we were very pleased to take part in the London Transport Museum and Flickr Scavenger Hunt. Brave, click-happy Flickr fans, museum lovers and the types who just like a London-based challenge all set out with a list of questions and a map, then proceeded to run around in the light rain for two and a......

The London Festival of Architecture is throwing up some wonderfully wildcard events but two talks at the London Transport Museum get down to more immediately relevant issues, looking at sustainable urban development. Tomorrow, Malcolm Smith, Design Director at Arup's Integrated Urbanism Unit reveals his pioneering work on Chinese eco-city Dongtan near Shanghai, which will run entirely on renewable energy and aims to be car free, zero emmission and totally recycling by 2050. Then on......

Some Routemasters just don't know when to retire. While Boris considers his pledge to resurrect a modernised Routemaster, the original omnibus gets an artistic outing at the London Transport Museum. The double-decker is celebrated in a photographic exhibition by Ralf Obergfell, a German-born artist with a deep affection for the curtailed London icon. Last Stop opened this weekend and runs till 27 July. Meanwhile, Travis Elborough, author of The Bus We Loved, will give a......

Remember this? Flickr folk let loose in the London Transport Museum with cameras a-go-go? Well, true to their word, the best 5 Flickr pics now adorn the Museum's website. Featured in there are a couple of Londonist Flickr pool favourites, including Chutney Bannister and Phill Price. Hooray! See more of the photos from the Flickr London Transport Museum meet here. Thanks to Annie Mole for reminding us about this excellent initiative! Metroland, one of......

A few weeks back a group of Flickr folk, led by Annie Mole and supported by Trusted Places and the lovelies at Flickr themselves, were given free tickets to run amok in the London Transport Museum with their cameras. The Museum reopened in November last year following a major revamp and what better PR could the place wish for than a load of London photographers taking nearly 700 snapshots, posting them on Flickr and gushing......

To celebrate the rebranding of the Platform for Art initiative as Art on the Underground, TfL are giving away specially commissioned posters at 5 Zone 1 tube stations all next week (bound to be a bunfight on Monday though, be prepared). Among the artists is Turner Prize nominated Mark Titchner and poster designs include a fictitious A-Z map and some snow capped mountains. 25,000 of each design have been produced and will be stacked......

Toot toot! And honk, honk! For the London Transport Museum has finally reopened after two years and £22 million of renovation. Hot on the (w)heels of St Pancras. Typical: you wait years for a major nexus of transport heritage to open, and then two come along at once. The Covent Garden attraction tells the story of the trotting, crawling and whizzing of our city over the past 200 years. There’s also a section looking......

Yesterday we let you know about badoyster, a company making satirical oyster card wallets. This got us thinking, why haven't more people got cool oyster wallets? An oyster card is something that most of us carry but most of us still use a battered Tfl one with all the colour coming off. Well, it seems badoyster aren't your only way out of oyster wallet boredom. Oyster card wallets might just be the fashion accessory......

The London Transport Museum has gone eBay crazy this month: This fundraising auction is being held by the Friends of London’s Transport Museum to raise money for the redevelopment of the popular central London museum. All proceeds will go towards new exhibitions and education facilities which will be enjoyed by hundreds of thousands people and schools in the years to come. Please help us to realise this important project. So what are they are......

BBC4 are giving the beloved Routemaster a sendoff with a night of dedicated double decker telly: On Friday 9 December, the most famous bus in the world - the Routemaster - will take its final journey through the streets of London. BBC Four and Arena celebrate the transport icon. The day after the last Routemaster has buckarooed its final passenger from its suicide step you can sit back in your London Transport Museum PJs......

In design terms, the Tube is best known for its iconic map, designed by Harry Beck. But an equally noteworthy part of the Underground "look" is its typography, designed in 1916 by Edward Johnston. (Although that date might not be right; the LT Museum says 1913 for some reason.) Just as the map was a confusing tangle before Beck got his hands on it, the Tube's signage was a mess. As different lines had......

The BBC reports that London Underground has placed vintage posters around the tube network to announce the arrival of Spring. The posters were selected form the archive of the London Transport Museum and were originally produced to "encourage Londoners to use the Tube as one of the "quickest and most reliable ways to see more of their city". Alright, so TfL might have a bit of a problem communicating that particular philosophy these days,......