London Transport Museum has released new tickets for its Hidden London tours running from October 2025 to March 2026.
Hidden London is a series of exclusive guided tours that take guests aged 10 and over behind the scenes of the Tube network to explore the city’s history They are the only tours in the city that grant guests aged 10 and over exclusive access to these closed-off locations, with the chance to step into secret parts of the Underground network and to hear little known historical facts about London and its transport network, right where it all took place.
There are 10 closed-off locations to explore, including disused stations, time-capsule
corridors, closed platforms, filming locations and wartime shelters. These include tours of disused Tube station Aldwych, the secret filming locations at Charing Cross, the wartime deep-level shelter at Clapham South as well as secret parts of Baker Street, Euston, Moorgate, Piccadilly Circus and Holborn.
The tours run Wednesday-Sunday. Profits from the tours are used to fund London Transport Museum’s charitable work and to conserve and share London’s transport and design heritage.
Aldwych: The End of the Line Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter
The chance to go into a disused Tube station that closed to the public over 30 years ago to explore its turn-of-the-century ticket hall, lifts and platforms, and hear about the key roles that it played throughout history, from wartime shelter to TV and film location.
Baker Street: The World’s First Underground
An historical journey at one of the oldest underground railway stations in the world.
Hear what the very first Victorian passengers thought of underground travel and explore closed-off parts of the station including original platforms and corridors –
some of which last accessed by the public over 75 years ago.
Charing Cross: Behind the Silver Screen
Explore the disused Jubilee line platforms, corridors and concourse that closed to the
public over 25 years ago. Hear about their role as film locations, having starred in
productions including Skyfall and walk the secret tunnels under Trafalgar Square.
A guide portrays a 1940s ARP warden in the footsteps of a wartime South London family spending their first night in a deep level shelter hidden under the streets of South London. Get hands-on with genuine Second World War torches, discover what an Anderson shelter looked like and sit on the original bunk beds turned benches that families would spend their evenings on during air raids.
Dover Street: Alight Here for Green Park
Discover a secret former station hidden within Green Park station, with former passageways and lift landings that have been closed for decades, strikingly vast ventilation shafts and corridors, and hear how those spaces played a pivotal role during the Second World War.
Euston: The Lost Tunnels
Retrace a century of transport innovation and explore time-capsules that haven’t been seen by passengers in decades, see a gallery of preserved vintage advertising poster fragments that have been concealed for over 50 years.
Holborn: The Secret Platforms
Step behind the closed doors of this busy Tube interchange, of which a third is not
open to the public. Learn about film locations and the disused platforms and tunnels of the Aldwych branch.
Moorgate: Metropolitan Maze
Step into a maze of disused spaces that were left behind by almost 160 years of re designs and station upgrades. Walk alongside disused tracks, spot original passenger corridors complete with vintage tiles and posters and discover ingenious repurposes in response to the needs of the growing capital.
Piccadilly Circus: The Heart of London
Explore beautiful Edwardian design in secret tunnels that closed to the public in 1929.
Hear the role it played in the Second World War, and how modernisation works in the
1920s defined the looks of Underground station across London.