Kids can now explore Aldwych's abandoned tube platforms on new Hidden London tour

A family-friendly Hidden London tour will be launched at the disused Aldwych tube station, targeting children aged 10 to 14 while welcoming older youngsters and adults. The experience adapts the long-running Aldwych: End of the Line tour, which has operated since 2016, and adds interactive activities and puzzles to make the station’s history easier to engage with. Visitors explore the abandoned former Piccadilly line terminus that closed to passengers in 1994. Guides use accessible language and storytelling to cover the station’s evolution from its Edwardian origins to its use as an air raid shelter during both world wars and later as a filming location. Families solve riddles together and use sensory elements and oral testimonies, including smell jars and hands-on objects, to imagine underground sheltering. Tours begin 16 July 2026, with ticket prices starting at £43.50 for children and £46.50 for adults, and include museum entry benefits and shop discounts.

"The London Transport Museum is launching a new family-friendly Hidden London tour of the disused Aldwych tube station, aimed primarily at children aged 10 to 14, while still welcoming older youngsters and adults. The new experience is an adapted version of the museum's long-running Aldwych: End of the Line tour, which has been taking visitors behind the station's locked doors since 2016. This family edition adds a more interactive approach, with activities and puzzles designed to make the station's history more engaging for younger visitors."

"As with the original tour, families will explore the abandoned former Piccadilly line terminus, which closed to passengers in 1994. Along the way, guides will use more accessible language and storytelling to explain how the station evolved over the past century - from its early days as an Edwardian tube station, through its use as an air raid shelter during both world wars, to its later life as a popular filming location for Hollywood productions. Children and adults will work together throughout the tour to solve riddles, uncover clues and unlock different chapters of the station's history."

"The experience also includes sensory elements and oral testimonies to help younger visitors imagine what it was like to shelter underground during wartime, such as smell jars and hands-on objects linked to the station's past. It is the first Hidden London tour created specifically for families and younger audiences, following the decision in 2024 to lower the minimum age for all Hidden London tours from 14 to 10 years old. The new Aldwych: End of the Line (Family Edition) tours will begin on 16th July 2026."

"Tickets start at £43.50 for children and £46.50 for adults, and include half-price one-day entry to the London Transport Museum in Covent Garden within a month of the tour date, plus a 10% discount on full-priced items in the museum shops. Tickets are on sale from here."

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