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London Transport Museum Releases New Tickets for its Autumn and Winter Hidden London Tours
- 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, right where it happened
- There are 10 closed-off locations to explore, including disused stations, time-capsule corridors, closed platforms, filming locations or wartime shelters.
- Tours that will be running from October to March 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.
- Tours run all year around Wednesday-Sunday, but new tickets are released throughout the year due to site availability.
- Tickets can be booked via London Transport Museum’s website: www.ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london
- 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.
- In addition to the new dates of tours, tickets are also now available for a new edition of a live showing of a Hidden London Hangouts episode in November, with hosts Chris Nix, Laura Hilton-Brown, Siddy Holloway and Alex Grundon.
- A special retail range of tote bags, tea towels, mugs and magnet sets is also available for sale via the Museum shop, inspired by the beautiful tile designs found on the Underground.
Tickets are now available for tours running up until the end of March 2026 for London Transport Museum’s award-winning Hidden London tours.
Hidden London is a series of 10 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 autumn and winter there will be 12 tours on offer, including:
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 November and December 2025 and February and March 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £45; Concessions & Children £42
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 November and December 2025 and January and March 2026
Tickets: Adult £45, Concessions & Children £42
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 October, November and December 2025
Tickets: Adult tickets £45; Concession & Children £42
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 November and December 2024 and January 2025
Tickets: Adult £90, Concessions & Children £87
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 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.
Dates: Wednesdays to Sundays during October and February half terms, the festive holidays, and selected weekends
Tickets: Adult £38, Concession & Children £35
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 October 2025 and January and February 2026
Tickets: Adult £45, Concession & Children £42
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 October and December 2025 and January and February 2026
Tickets: Adult £45, Concessions & Children £42
Step behind the closed doors of this busy Tube interchange, of which a third is not open to the public. Uncover film locations, a unique view on the Aldwych crossover, and the disused platforms and tunnels 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 £45, Concessions & Children £42
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 October, November and December 2025 and March 2026
Tickets: Adult £45, Concessions & Children £42
Piccadilly Circus: The Heart of London
Explore beautiful Edwardian design in secret tunnels that closed to the 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 looks of Underground station across London.
Dates: Selected Wednesdays to Sundays in December 2025 and January, February and March 2026
Tickets: Adult tickets £45; Concession & Children £42
PLUS: Piccadilly Circus and Lunch at Hard Rock Cafe
Combine your Piccadilly Circus tour with a delicious lunch at the Hard Rock cafe to enjoy courses including burgers, sandwiches and salads surrounded by a world of music and iconic memorabilia.
Dates: Available on Fridays and Sundays 13.00 tours
Tickets: Adult £75, Concessions & Children £72
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 March 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.
There will also be other Hidden London activity:
Hidden London Hangouts Live
The team behind London Transport Museum’s popular YouTube series Hidden London Hangouts will host another in-person showing of an exclusive episode at the museum’s Cubic Theatre on Friday 7 November. Siddy Holloway will make her return, joining fellow presenters Chris Nix, Laura Hilton-Brown, and Alex Grundon for a live viewing of their exploration of the disused British Museum Tube station. This will be followed by a Q&A session with a live audience.
Tickets are available to join here, starting from £17.
A Tile-inspired Retail Range
London Transport Museum’s shop has just launched an exclusive special Hidden London range of tote bags, tea towels, mugs and magnet sets that are inspired by the beautiful tile designs that are found in several Hidden London locations. Products can be bought at the Museum shop in Covent Garden or online here.
A Behind the Scenes Page
Fans can now find out more about all things Hidden London thanks to a new webpage featured 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.
Find out more here
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