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[sim667]

I've been looking at their hidden tours this morning, and I'm quite tempted to sign up for a couple..... I'm just trying to work out which are best, and seeing if any urbs have been and whether they're worth it?

The options are:
55 Broadway
Clapham South Deep Tunnels
Down Street Station (although this one is £75 )

 

[editor]

They usually sell out in a blink of an eye

 

[sim667]

They usually sell out in a blink of an eye

There's tickets available for all 3 currently..... And another one I can't do as its not available on weekends...

Out of the tunnels and 55 broadway, any idea which would be more interesting?

 

[Pickman's model]

There's tickets available for all 3 currently..... And another one I can't do as its not available on weekends...

Out of the tunnels and 55 broadway, any idea which would be more interesting?

55 broadway might be

 

[sim667]

55 broadway might be

I was thinking that, but I do also have a penchant for tunnels.

I'm assuming 55 broadway is empty at the minute, so I guess it would be worth going to before its converted in the million quid flats, which will sit empty for the rest of eternity, right?

 

[sim667]

Oh yeah, I know there's a lot of people who always want to go on the aldwych station tours, which are nigh on impossible to get tickets for...

But I noticed a company who do movie tours are doing them too now

Aldwych Station Tour | Brit Movie Tours

 

[Bungle73]

Oh yeah, I know there's a lot of people who always want to go on the aldwych station tours, which are nigh on impossible to get tickets for...

But I noticed a company who do movie tours are doing them too now

Aldwych Station Tour | Brit Movie Tours

You can if you book early enough. I didn't have any trouble getting one a few years ago.

You can also do tours through English Heritage (if you're a member).

 

[hash tag]

Tickets have been released for this year from something like £33.50 to £115.00, Mind you The Broadway generously includes a cuppa. Thats me out.

One for the lovely editor a snip at £100 Euston photography - London Transport Museum

 

[hash tag]

Hey, editor, carry your equipment for you? Say Dec 14.

 

[sim667]

Tickets have been released for this year from something like £33.50 to £115.00, Mind you The Broadway generously includes a cuppa. Thats me out.

One for the lovely editor a snip at £100 Euston photography - London Transport Museum

I'm actually really tempted by this. It would be a cool oppurtunity.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I wants it precious.


*scrimps and saves*

 

[Endeavour]

Not really pertaining to this thread but I didn't want to start a new one for this bit of weirdness.

A number of plans were drawn up around the turn of the 20th century to extend the developing the Underground network to Cricklewood. Several proposals were put forward to construct an underground railway tunnel under the length of the Edgware Road, including an unusual scheme to build a type of subterranean monorail roller-coaster, but these proposals were abandoned.

A subterranean monorail roller-coaster !!
Boy they had some great ideas back in the day.
I think I shall write to the Mayor.

 

[colacubes]

We actually did the Clapham South deep level tour. Was fascinating and well worth the cash. But they do sell out quick as editor says. I got tix as a pressie for my OH's birthday and think I booked last April for March this year and at the point I booked (date tix were released) all the weekends were already gone meaning I had to book for a weekday afternoon and we both had to take the afternoon off work.

 

[hash tag]

Just been paid and the whole lot is sold out

 

[colacubes]

Just been paid and the whole lot is sold out

Nope. Tickets still available for this:

Clapham South: Subterranean Screenings - London Transport Museum

 

[hash tag]

Not sure that I want that. I just wanted a nosey around one or two places...

 

[Gromit]

The Down Street one, save yourself £75 and just watch one of the many documentaries where someone gets shown around it.

I'll park my train in its sidings one day. Not yet though.

 

[editor]

This opens on Friday:

Poster Girls – a century of wonderful art and design by female artists at the London Transport Museum

 

[editor]

Some pics from a recent visit:

Trams, trains, tubes, trolleybuses and buses: a look around the London Transport Museum

 

[JuanTwoThree]

More trips:

Hidden London - London Transport Museum

 

[hash tag]

The Down Street Tour was excellent if a little to focused on WW11. Next Charing x or Clapham South me thinks.
It turns out Down Street is the most expensive of the trips but it has the smallest groups, around 20 people tops
and 5 or 6 staff. It is dark, it is small, it is on to a platform between two live tubes lines. Worth it though.

 

[Gromit]

More trips:

Hidden London - London Transport Museum

I'd like to do Down Street but £85!

Its the only siding on the Pic line that I haven't been in but that not the reason. The station itself is a bit of a time capsule.

 

[Gromit]

The Down Street one, save yourself £75 and just watch one of the many documentaries where someone gets shown around it.

I'll park my train in its sidings one day. Not yet though.

That prediction never came to pass and never will now lol.

Price went up a tenner as well.

 

[alsoknownas]

Some of my films are on show as part of the new Future Engineers exhibition.

 

[hash tag]

Not quite up there with a tour of a closed station, but, it's free Disused Underground Stations!

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Look at these beauties

Sitting pretty: London transport fabrics over the decades – in pictures

 

[Bus Honeygun]

HUNDRED AND FIFTY QUID?!

Heritage vehicle outings - London Transport Museum

 

[editor]

This was nice

In photos: London Transport Museum opens Canteen, a new cafe/bar in the heart of Covent Garden

 

[hash tag]

On my last visit I noticed they had made the caff a little bigger.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Couple of virtual Hidden London tours being arranged (via Zoom):

These two stations, King William Street and Brompton Road have extremely restricted access so we'll never be able to offer public tours. But with these digital tours, you will get the special opportunity to take a peek inside with an expert guide via Zoom.

You'll be able to see a gallery of photos and videos as well as archival footage from our collection as your expert guide takes you through the history of the station. You'll also get the opportunity ask your guide questions.

£30 a pop, though