Inside creepy hidden tunnel under UK’s busiest streets where you can spy on commuters – visitors wish they never entered
THERE are creepy hidden tunnels under Britain’s busiest streets where you can spy on commuters.
But some visitors to the secret passages around one London underground station wish they had never entered.
London Transport Museum opened the passages in 2022, allowing people to walk the abandoned sections of select tube stations.
Some of the tunnels have been closed to the public for decades – having been used for maintenance, storage, and evacuations.
One travel influencer, Dan Thomas, toured the tunnels underneath Shephard’s Bush tube station.
In a TikTok, Thomas showed abandoned parts of the station including a large staircase used for maintenance and evacuations.
He also revealed a section of the station where you could see commuters through a metal gate.
Thomas said: “In quite a few places there are spots where you can spy on unsuspecting passengers.”
Tourists might even catch a look of passengers evacuating a train walking between platforms.
One 2016 evacuation saw roughly 350 passengers trapped inside the peak-time train for 40 minutes before train crews and police led them in single file back to a train platform.
Tourists walking through the tunnels will be surrounded by cables hanging on the wall, blackened concrete, and plenty of metal.
They might even catch a look at historic posters or signs from when an abandoned station was last in use.
London Transport Museum now offers the tours at 10 stations, including Piccadilly Circus, Baker Street, and Clapham South.
Baker Street will be popular with history buffs as the station includes 160 years of history and a look at the earliest days of the underground.
Meanwhile, Down Street has a bomb shelter that was used by Winston Churchill during WW2.
Charing Cross station will be a fan of film buffs as an abandoned platform was used in Bond, Sherlock, Luther and Bourne blockbusters.
Before the tours, most people who entered the area wished they hadn’t as the tunnels were mostly used for evacuations.
Dan toured Shepherd’s Bush station, which was first opened in 1900 as the western end of the Central London Railway.
In one clip, he can see commuters walking through a station in between he holes in a large metal grate.
The railway was seen as pioneering at the time, as it provided a transport link between areas of West London and the City of London.
Charing Cross filming location
CHARING Cross, near Trafalgar Square, is typically the go-to location for any tube-based scenes for films.
The station has an old Jubilee line platform that hasn’t been used by travellers since 1999.
Now the old platform acts as a purpose built film set, with the likes of Daniel Craig, Idris Elba and even Paddington Bear filming scenes there.
Siddy Holloway, Engagement Manager for London Transport Museum’s Hidden London, told Sun Online Travel why it is a perfect location to film any underground scenes.
She said: “Charing Cross is where we marry up underground history with pop culture because it is used extensively as a film set for Hollywood blockbusters.
“Skyfall was filmed there, Paddington, Thor, the Bourne Ultimatum, Luther, Sherlock Holmes and others.
“It’s the old Jubilee Line concourse that closed in 1999 and so they can authentically create the atmosphere of the underground without disturbing passengers on the actual underground.”
