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London Transport Museum : Hidden London tours

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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

London Transport Museum runs the tours from October to March.

They are the only tours in the city that grant guests aged 10 and over exclusive access to these closed-off locations.

 It provides 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

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.Clapham South: Subterranean Shelter

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, visit the iLeslie Green station and uncover secret views on the Northern line.

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 locationsand 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.

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