Museum of London plan transparent rail tunnel for new site

[Bungle73]

Commuters could become exhibits after Museum of London bosses revealed they hoped to make a train tunnel that runs through their new site see-through.

Thameslink trains between Farringdon and City Thameslink travel beneath Smithfield market where the museum plans to move to.

Lead curator Alex Werner said the viewing area would allow visitors to see trains run along "some of London's earliest railway tunnels".

The new site is due to open in 2022.

Mr Werner said the museum wanted to use what was already in the area to "uncover the hidden landscape beneath London".

Plans from the 19th Century show the area had a "great Victorian network of railway lines" which was used by workers at the former meat market, he said.

The "lost" River Fleet, which runs beneath Farringdon Road, acted as a water supply for the market as well as a Victorian sewer and the museum hopes to incorporate viewpoints of the water.

"There are lots of stories to tell in relation to just this part of London", Mr Werner said.

Discussions have begun about the proposed move but planning permission for the £250m project has yet to be submitted.

The City of London Corporation and City Hall have pledged £180m towards the project but the museum is looking to raise another £70m to move to its new home.

Museum of London plans for see-through rail tunnel - BBC News

Cool.

 

[tim]

More fun than that stupid bridge.

 

[bi0boy]

Museum of London plans for see-through rail tunnel - BBC News

Cool.

You already replied to the other thread about this, so you must have known it existed, yet you start your own one anyway.

 

[Bungle73]

You already replied to the other thread about this, so you must have known it existed, yet you start your own one anyway.

Er look at the dates...

 

[fishfinger]

Er look at the dates...

The other thread was started a day before this one.

 

[Bungle73]

The other thread was started a day before this one.

But I didn't reply to it until yesterday evening.

 

[bi0boy]

Er look at the dates...

So you didn't see the other thread before you started this one? That's fair enough, although it would have been better if you'd started this one because you were annoyed the other one had the word "tube" in the title.

 

[fishfinger]

But I didn't reply to it until yesterday evening.

Yes.

 

[1927]

i don't understand why this is such a big thing. Its not like no one has ever seen a train before!