{"id":3421,"date":"2017-09-23T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenandjon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2024-07-24T21:09:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:09:27","slug":"trainspotters-day-out-aka-acton-depot-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hweb.uk\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"London – Trainspotters Day Out (aka Acton Depot Visit!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Acton Depot<\/strong><\/a> was opened up to the public twice a year and Jon had got tickets for us to go and see behind the scenes. We weren’t sure what to expect … apart from seeing a load of trains and trainspotters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did wonder what we’d let ourselves in for – we were walking towards the depot and a man walking towards us was carrying a huge pile of the tube maps (the ones that are in the tube trains so you know where you are!) on his shoulders.  We were in real trainspotting territory!<\/p>\n\n\n

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It wasn’t overly busy, but plenty of people that knew their stuff.  The depot holds a huge amount of stuff – everything that has been collected over the years and not on display at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden.  Old tube carriages from the turn of the century (the 19th to 20th Century!).  The actual carriage design hasn’t changed too much over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n

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