London Transport Museum has announced that tickets are now available for its Hidden London tours running until the end of September 2025. The programme, which offers exclusive guided tours of disused and hidden locations within London’s Underground network, is marking its 10th anniversary with refreshed content and enhanced audio-visual elements for several of its tours.
Originally launched in June 2015 with a tour of the disused areas of Charing Cross Underground station, Hidden London now offers 12 different tours. These provide access to closed-off locations, including abandoned platforms, forgotten corridors, and wartime shelters, while presenting historical insights drawn from the museum’s archives.
To mark a decade of Hidden London, historical researchers have revisited Transport for London’s corporate archives and the London Transport Museum’s collection to uncover new documents, maps, and images. These findings have been incorporated into the tours, and additional audio and visual content has been designed to enhance engagement, particularly for younger audiences. The minimum age for visitors has also been lowered from 14 to 10 years, allowing families to participate for the first time.
As part of the updates, three of the programme’s most popular tours – Aldwych, Piccadilly Circus, and Charing Cross – have been revised with new historical insights and immersive elements.
The Aldwych
The End of the Line tour will feature additional first-hand accounts from Londoners sheltered at the disused station during the Second World War. Further details will also be provided on how the station safeguarded national treasures during air raids. This tour will begin on 21 May 2025, and ticket prices will start from £42.
Piccadilly Circus
The Heart of London will provide a more in-depth exploration of the station’s role in the Second World War and its architectural evolution. The tour will highlight the transition from Leslie Green’s original red-tiled exterior to Charles Holden’s modernist redesign of the 1920s. Additionally, visitors will have access to a newly included disused area, allowing them to trace the steps of Edwardian passengers navigating towards the Bakerloo line. Tours for this location will begin on 18 June 2025, with prices starting from £42.
Charing Cross
The tour of Charing Cross Underground station, now renamed Charing Cross: Behind the Silver Screen, will focus on the station’s function as a ‘hot-set’ location for film and television. Although its Jubilee line platforms and concourses closed to the public in 1999, they have since been used in numerous productions, including Skyfall (2012), The Good Liar (2019), One Love (2024), Sherlock (2010), and Gangs of London (2020). This tour will begin on 18 April 2025, with ticket prices starting from £42.
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