Secrets of the London Underground

Synopsis



Railway historian Tim Dunn (The Architecture The Railways Built) teams up with Siddy Holloway from the London Transport Museum to explore the disused parts of London's tube network, from abandoned stations to redundant tunnels and lifts, often hidden right under passengers' noses.

Episode 6: Leicester Square



Leicester Square is the beating heart of London’s West End: the home of glitzy film premieres, world-class theatre and even a really big Greggs. As always, Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway are more starstruck by what’s happening underground. They travel to the depths of Leicester Square to find a station with a long history of change. One tiny door, for instance, leads to a giant spiral staircase. Features like these were abandoned in the early 1930s, when an expansion of the Tube map led to more people visiting central London from the suburbs.

Elsewhere, Holloway visits Hyde Park Corner, where one of the station’s former entrances has been reopened as a hotel, and Dunn gets very excited about station clocks.

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