Hidden Tube Tour – Piccadilly Circus: The Heart of London – London, United Kingdom

EXPERIENCE:

London Transport Museum, the world’s leading museum of urban transport, invites you to join an exclusive Hidden London guided tour of one of the most iconic stations on the London Underground: Piccadilly Circus. Located directly underneath the celebrated landmark, Piccadilly Circus station opened in 1906 serving the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines.

Extensively modernised between 1925 and 1928 to meet passenger demands, the station is an engineering marvel and boasts one of the finest examples of subterranean architecture on the London Underground.

You’ll step behind secret doors, to passageways and lift shafts closed to the public since 1929 and discover the original Edwardian design features, the fascinating stories of wartime sheltering and top-secret storage of priceless artefacts. Piccadilly Circus offers a unique perspective of how the London Underground has grown and adjusted to Londoners’ needs for over a century.

All Hidden London tours are written by historical experts from London Transport Museum and based on content drawn from the Museum’s extensive archive and collection. The tours were named ’Best Hidden Gem in the World’ at the Tiqets’ Remarkable Venue Awards 2022 by public vote.

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Step behind the scenes on a tour of one of London’s most iconic tube stations
Hear fascinating stories of wartime shelterers who took refuge in the station
Explore disused passenger tunnels closed to the travelling public since 1929
Discover hidden original Edwardian design features

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