A VINTAGE steam train will run between Ealing Broadway and High Street Kensington as the London Transport Museum and TfL celebrate 150 years of the District Line.

Three return journeys will take place on both Saturday and Sunday June 22 and 23.

Tickets to travel aboard will go on sale on LT Museum’s website at 10am this Wednesday (27).

It will mark the final time steam trains travel into central London on the Underground due to signalling modernisation for the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines from 2021. 

Steam trains served the District Railway when it first opened to the public between South Kensington and Westminster on Christmas Eve, 1868. Today, the District line serves 60 stations, the most of any Tube line.

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Sam Mullins, Director of LT Museum, said: “Passengers will be transported to a bygone era of Victorian steam-powered travel, giving people a rare opportunity to experience the sounds and sights of travelling on the District line when it first opened 150 years ago.”

LT Museum will continue to offer its heritage steam train outings on the outer reaches of the Metropolitan line towards Chesham.

Visitors looking to enjoy other heritage days out can book to board a restored red double-decker bus for day-time excursions from Covent Garden to Kew Gardens and Greenwich.

People can also discover more District line history at the next open weekend at the LT Museum Depot at Acton on Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28.

Tickets to ride aboard the District 150 steam train, join an excursion by bus to Kew Gardens and Greenwich or visit the Museum Depot Open Weekend can be booked here: www.ltmuseum.co.uk