Has anyone been to the London Transport Museum since it re-opened?

I'm having an unusually long period of Not Being In London and won't be
able to visit until Wednesday. I wonder if anyone has any positive (or
otherwise!) Things to say about what we have to see for two years of
closure?

Ian Jelf wrote:

Most of the people who have seen it have been disappointed.

On Nov 23, 2:48 pm, Ian Jelf bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote:

I went into the shop. Not impressed , lots of tourist tat but no books
at all, not even about the tube , never mind general railway books
like they used to have. Theres definately been a dumbing down.

B2003

Boltar wrote:

Did you go upstairs in the new shop? The enthusiast type stuff,
including at least four rows of back to back shelving full of books is
up there.

"Ian Jelf" bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:N3t+04nwguRHFwNn@bluebadge.demon.co.uk...

The Times had a couple of fairly positive pages on the new set up during the
week, Tuesday or Wednesday? May be online...

Paul

On 23 Nov, 14:48, Ian Jelf bluebadge.demon.co.uk> wrote:

As detailed here:
<http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/aboutus/348.aspx>

I tried to post on the exact same topic this morning, but courtesy of
my own dozy ineptness I managed to consigned the post into the ether,
rather than send it on its way via the ethernet.

I am looking forward to a visit - I hadn't been to the old museum for
a some time but it was always worthwhile - though I was pondering
leaving it for a little while until the initial frenzy died down
somewhat (perhaps some time in the new year).

It's also worth noting the late opening of the museum on fridays until
9pm.

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Mizter T wrote:

But do they take Oyster?

tom

In message
<76b11708-07b4-464f-a107-16df3e54059b@o6g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
Mizter T gmail.com> writes

But apparently not the shop (Fridays until 6.00pm), which I find
distinctly odd. This is not only a major part of a museum visit for
many but also seems to seriously limit income when the museum is costing
money to be open.

In message news.demon.co.uk>, John Rowland
journeyflow.spamspam.demon.co.uk> writes

Have these been people who've been in since it opened, or people who
were working (or similar) in there before an actual opening?

I have to confess it's not what I wanted to hear but the simplification
of Museums is becoming a depressingly regular occurrence these days. I
do hope it's not true at the LT Museum.
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

In message
l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
Boltar yahoo.co.uk> writes

The shop's been open for ages and not only do I think it very good, it
has lots and lots of books, both on LT and on railways and other
subjects (eg design, architecture, tourist books).

They are all upstairs, though; did you not go up there, perhaps?

What I *have* noticed is an improvement in the attitude or at the least
the friendliness of staff there. As I've commented here before, often
at the old shops they sometimes made me feel as though I was
interrupting their private lives whenever I went in to buy anything.
On my visits to the new shop I've not had this happen once.