3 May 1969: Artefacts will be moved from the Museum of British Transport to the Railway Museum in York The Museum of British Transport at Clapham is probably lost. The Government intends to close it and lag most of the relics to York,where they will be inaccessible to thousands of people who might otherwise see them.
It is a weird decision. The main reason is said to be economy, because the Clapham museum has been losing 30000 a year. But it is uncommon that a beneficent Government which can find about £2 millions in annual subsidy for two opera companies cannot find £30000 for a museum to commemorate the development of the railways, and which was at first peculiarly an English achievement.
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Source: theguardian.com