London Transport Museum - New Hidden London dates are coming next week!

 

Tickets go on sale next week for spring and summer tours Next week, we'll be launching tickets for more Hidden London tours than ever, helping you plan your days out from April all the way through to August. Tickets for tour dates between April and the end of  August will be on sale through our brand new ticketing system, offering you a simpler, quicker purchase path. Tours of Piccadilly Circus, Moorgate, Aldwych and Charing Cross will be on offer, as well as our Kingsway tram tunnel tour which will make a return for the first time since July 2022. You'll also have more opportunities to explore Shepherd's Bush, Down Street, Euston and Clapham South, and to join our walking tour of Covent Garden and the West End. We're also bringing you a wide selection of virtual tours, ranging from our new overview of 160 years of history Discovering the Forgotten Underground to Liverpool Street, Tottenham Court Road, Holborn Kingsway, Aldwych, Brompton Road, King William Street Bank, Euston and York Road - all from the comfort of your own home.

How to book

As a subscriber, you'll get 24 hours early access to book tickets, so keep your eyes peeled on your inbox next Tuesday 7 March at 10am.

Can’t wait until then? The last remaining tickets for February and March tours are available on our website.

All Hidden London

Shepherd's Bush Discover original Central line design features, and its history as the third deep Tube railway built in London. See the brilliant engineering that cools the warm line and explore unexpected uses for its secret corridors from 80 years ago. Shepherd's Bush Euston Discover a labyrinth of passageways, including a gallery of 1960s advertising poster fragments concealed for over 50 years, and see parts of the iconic Leslie Green station hidden under the station that we know today. Euston

Down Street Closed to the public since 1932, Down Street transformed during wartime into the Railway Executive Committee’s bomb-proof headquarters, where Winston Churchill secretly took refuge at the height of the Blitz. Down Street Clapham South Clapham South deep-level shelter has over a mile of subterranean passageways that housed people including World War II shelterers, Caribbean migrants arriving on HMT Empire Windrush, and Festival of Britain visitors. Clapham South

Piccadilly Circus This Grade II listed building serves over 40 million passengers a year, but our tour takes you behind secret doors, through passageways and lift shafts closed to the public since 1929 to discover its original Edwardian design features. Piccadilly Circus Moorgate Go behind the scenes at this 1865 station to discover a maze of disused tunnels, abandoned track, original glass tiles from the City and South London Railway ... and the only complete Greathead shield on the Underground network. Moorgate

Aldwych Step inside this former Piccadilly line terminus to see the ticket hall, original lifts, abandoned platforms and tunnels, and inter-connecting walkways - as featured in famous TV and film productions from Sherlock to Atonement. Aldwych Charing Cross Explore the disused spaces of Charing Cross Underground station, go behind closed doors to exclusive areas not accessible to the public, walk under Trafalgar Square and discover this popular filming location in a different light. Charing Cross

Kingsway tram tunnel The Kingsway Tram Subway linked north and south London's extensive tram networks. Learn its story and explore the original features inside the surviving tunnel and former tram station. Kingsway tram tunnel Secrets of Central London Spring and summer are ideal times to unlock the secrets of the West End with our expert guided walking tour through Covent Garden, Kingsway, Lincoln’s Inn Fields and Victoria Embankment. Walking tour

Virtual tours

NEW: Discovering the Forgotten Underground virtual tour Our new virtual tour explores how the network has evolved over 160 years, from Charles Pearson’s revolutionary idea to run trains underground in the 1850s to today’s futuristic new Elizabeth line tunnels, using exclusive documents from our archives and new footage. Discovering the Forgotten Underground virtual tour

Holborn (Kingsway) virtual tour Join us on this exclusive virtual tour where we explore the three abandoned structures of Kingsway, Aldwych and Holborn with rarely-seen footage, led by an expert guide. Holborn (Kingsway) virtual tour Brompton Road virtual tour Zoom in for this special behind the scenes digital tour of this Piccadilly Line station, closed since 1934, to learn about its time as a Second World War bunker and see what it looks like today. Brompton Road virtual tour

Elizabeth line: Liverpool Street virtual tour Explore the process of building this station between the existing Liverpool Street and Moorgate stations, from the archaeology, design, and artwork to its operation. Elizabeth line: Liverpool Street virtual tour Elizabeth line: Tottenham Court Road virtual tour Uncover the ingenious engineering and stunning architecture of one of London’s busiest stations, carefully mined through existing railway tunnels beneath the current Underground station. Elizabeth line: Tottenham Court Road virtual tour

Euston virtual tour Explore the passageways, emergency stairs and lift shaft of the old Hampstead tube and peek inside the iconic Leslie Green station building. People can't access these hidden parts of Euston: you can only see them through this tour! Euston virtual tour York Road virtual tour Join our expert guides for this virtual tour of a station only open from 1906-1932. Explore its unique surviving features such as the tiled lift lobby and signal cabin, as well as modifications to the station with never-before-seen footage. York Road virtual tour

King William Street Bank virtual tour Closed in 1900, the first disused deep tube station was the original northern terminus of the City and South London Railway - and it recently played a vital role in the redevelopment of Bank station. King William Street Bank virtual tour Aldwych virtual tour Our exclusive virtual tour of this popular Hidden London site reveals places that aren’t accessible in person, such as the ladies toilets, with fascinating original features, and the upper ticket hall with its original ticket windows and telephone booths - some dating back to the station’s opening in 1907. Aldwych virtual tour

Secrets of the London Underground will return!

Tim and Siddy have begun filming the third series of Secrets of the London Underground for UKTV's Yesterday channel! Catch up by watching series 1 and 2 on UKTV Play, and follow Siddy and the Hidden London Hangouts team as they explore the network on our free YouTube series. Secrets of the London Underground