Tickets are now available for tours running up until the end of September 2026 for London Transport Museum’s award-winning Hidden London tours. Hidden London is a series of exclusive guided tours, which take guests into secret locations around the network including disused stations, filming locations, forgotten platforms and wartime shelters, revealing little known historical facts from the museum’s archives along the way.
They are the only tours in the city that grant guests aged 10 and over exclusive access to these closed-off locations, offering the public a unique 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.
This spring and summer there will be 9 tours on offer, including:
Aldwych: The End of the Line
Venture into a disused Tube station that closed to the public over 30 years ago. 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.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in April, July and August 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
Baker Street: The World’s First Underground
Embark on a 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 that lay hidden in plain sight – some of which last accessed by the public over 75 years ago.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in April, May, June, July, August and September 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
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 (2012), Paddington Bear (2013), and TV’s Killing Eve (2019) and A Spy Among Friends (2022). Walk the secret tunnels under Trafalgar Square and enjoy a unique view on the Northern line platforms and trains.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in April and June 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
PLUS: Charing Cross & Classic Afternoon Tea at The Clermont
Combine your Charing Cross tour with a quintessentially British afternoon tea at beautiful The Clermont, one of London’s greatest railway hotels, to enjoy tea complete with scones, finger sandwiches and homemade treats.
Dates: Running Fridays and Sundays at 14.35, in April and June 2026
Tickets: Adult £91.50, Concessions & Children £88.50
Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter
Follow a guide portraying a 1940s ARP warden in the footsteps of a wartime South London family spending their first night in one of the eight deep level shelters hidden under the streets of South London. Explore over a mile of corridors, 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.
Dates: Wednesdays to Sundays during May half term, the summer holidays, and selected weekends
Tickets: Adult £39, Concession & Children £36
Dover Street: Alight Here for Green Park
Discover a secret former station hidden within Green Park station. Uncover former passageways and lift landings that have been closed to passengers for decades, strikingly vast ventilation shafts and corridors, and hear how those spaces played a pivotal role during the Second World War.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in April, May, June and July 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
Euston: The Lost Tunnels
Retrace a century of transport innovation and explore time-capsules that haven’t been seen by passengers in decades, marvel at a gallery of preserved vintage advertising poster fragments that have been concealed for over 50 years and see the iconic Leslie Green station and uncover secret views on the Northern line.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in May, June and July 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
Holborn: The Secret Platforms
Step behind the closed doors of this busy Tube interchange, of which a third is not open to the public. Uncover filming locations, a unique view on the rarely used tracks of the Aldwych crossover, and the disused platforms of the Aldwych branch which came to surprising uses over the years.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in October, November and December 2025 and January 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
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.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in April, July and September 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
Piccadilly Circus: The Heart of London
Uncover the original station’s beautiful Edwardian design in tunnels last seen by the travelling public in 1929. Hear the role those time-capsule corridors played in the Second World War, and how modernisation works in the 1920s defined the iconic look of Underground stations across London today.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in May and September 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £46.50; Concessions & Children £43.50
Secrets of Central London (Walking Tour)
Discover the secrets of the area around Theatreland, Covent Garden, Kingsway, and the Embankment with one of our expert guides. This walking tour reveals little known facts about the area that were pulled straight from our archives. Find out how well-known streets shaped London’s transport systems and get glimpses of some iconic Hidden London tour sites.
Dates: Selected Saturdays and Sundays until the end of September 2026
Tickets: Adult £20, Concession £17.50
Tickets are now available to book here: ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london. They include half price one-day entry to London Transport Museum (where under 18s go free!) within a month of the tour date and 10% discount on all full-priced products at the museum shops. Please note: this offer is not valid for group bookings of 10 or more tickets.
A Behind the Scenes Page
Fans can find out more about all things Hidden London thanks to a webpage featuring exclusive activities, interviews and videos that takes them behind the scenes of the programme to learn more on the work and the people involved in putting the tours together.
