Inside the 1938 Tube Stock Driving Motor car at the London Transport Museum, Covent Garden, Central London.

Note the Northern Line route maps. These include the Northern City Line but not the sections of steam railway which were intended to become part of the Northern Line but ended up being closed instead (Finsbury Park - Highgate - Muswell Hill - Alexandra Palace / Highgate - Mill Hill The Hale - Edgware), nor the brand new extension from Edgware to Bushey Heath.

Museum visitors are welcome to enter part of the carriage and sample the very comfortable seats.

This view looks towards the end of the carriage where the guard controlled the opening and closing of the passenger doors. The purpose of the green bar which blocks access to this area is to close off this area when it is being used by the guard. When the guard was not working here the green bar was stored away and passengers were welcome to travel in this area.

If the image looks somewhat dark, especially in the lower half, it is because this image accurately depicts what it was like in these trains which used tungsten light bulb / filament lighting. To someone who travelled on these trains when they were in normal service and unsuccessfully tried to take photographs using a real film camera (whilst below ground) finally achieving this desire with a digital camera is simply fantastic.

A YouTube film which includes footage of the guard opening and closing the doors can be seen at this link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRT3m_BaVc" rel="nofollow">www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuRT3m_BaVc</a>