London Transport Museum has announced Hidden London tours running from April to the end of September 2026, offering guests aged 10 and over an exclusive opportunity to explore secret locations across the Tube network and uncover the city’s history where it happened.
Hidden London is a series of guided tours taking visitors behind the scenes to explore nine closed-off locations, including disused stations, time-capsule corridors, closed platforms, filming locations, and wartime shelters, with tours from October to March featuring disused Aldwych station, secret filming sites at Charing Cross, the deep-level shelter at Clapham South, and hidden areas of Baker Street, Green Park, Euston, and Holborn.
Tours run from Wednesday to Sunday throughout the year, with locations and dates varying seasonally. Three to four locations are available each week, and tickets can be booked via the museum’s website. Profits from the tours support London Transport Museum’s charitable work, helping to conserve and share London’s transport and design heritage.
This spring and summer there will be nine tours on offer, including:
Explore a disused Tube station that has been closed to the public for over 30 years. 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
Discover 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 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
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
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
Step into a maze of disused spaces that were left behind by almost 160 years of redesigns 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 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, pulled straight from the archives. Find out how well-known streets shaped London’s transport systems and get glimpses of some Hidden London tour sites.
Dates: Selected Saturdays and Sundays until the end of September 2026
Tickets: Adult £20, Concession £17.50
For more information on London Transport Museum, please visit their website.
