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The Best Episodes of Secrets of the London Underground

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The Best Episodes of Secrets of the London Underground

Railway historian Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway from the London Transport Museum explore hidden areas of the London Underground that—despite being just feet away from...

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  1. Background image for Quainton Road and Kingsway
    8.3/10(13 votes)

    #1 - Quainton Road and Kingsway

    S2:E8

    Tim and Siddy visit Quainton Road in rural Buckinghamshire, 50 miles from central London – and once on the underground. Siddy also explores Kingsway tramway tunnel.

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    Director:Unknown
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  2. Background image for London Bridge and Ongar
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #2 - London Bridge and Ongar

    S2:E5

    Tim and Siddy explore the disused parts of London Bridge. Siddy visits Ongar in Essex, and nearby Blake Hall which, at the end, served less than 20 passengers a day.

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    Director:Unknown
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  3. Background image for King’s Cross and Marlborough Road
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #3 - King’s Cross and Marlborough Road

    S2:E6

    Tim and Siddy explore Kings Cross St Pancras, including a secret siding and the disused Thameslink station. Siddy also discovers long lost Marlborough Road station.

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    Director:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Baker Street and Edgware Road Signal Cabin
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #4 - Baker Street and Edgware Road Signal Cabin

    S2:E10

    Tim and Siddy explore the tube station with the most platforms, Baker Street. Siddy visits the disused Edgware Road Signal Cabin with its very last operator.

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    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Charing Cross and Kennington
    8.0/10(21 votes)

    #5 - Charing Cross and Kennington

    S2:E1

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway make their way over and explore the disused Jubilee line areas of Charing Cross station, which is now more famous as a film location.

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    Director:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Brompton Road and St Pauls
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #6 - Brompton Road and St Pauls

    S2:E4

    Tim and Siddy walk the Piccadilly line at night to explore the hidden World War 2 remains of Brompton Road. Siddy reveals the unexpected wartime use for St Pauls.

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  8. Background image for Waterloo & City and Mark Lane
    7.9/10(16 votes)

    #7 - Waterloo & City and Mark Lane

    S2:E2

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway go off and discover the hidden world of the Waterloo and City. This is the only line that is entirely underground.

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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for King William Street and Knightsbridge
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #8 - King William Street and Knightsbridge

    S2:E3

    Tim and Siddy visit King William Street, the earliest disused station on the deep tube. Siddy also sees new life breathed into Knightsbridge’s long-abandoned lifts.

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    Director:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Elizabeth Line and Angel
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Elizabeth Line and Angel

    S2:E7

    Tim and Siddy explore the brand new Elizabeth Line – and have access to 2 of its stations weeks before the line opens. Siddy also explores the disused parts of Angel.

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    Director:Unknown
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  11. Background image for Greenwich and Notting Hill
    7.8/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Greenwich and Notting Hill

    S2:E9

    Tim and Siddy visit the cathedral-like Greenwich Power Station, which stands ready to power the tube at short notice. Siddy visits hidden parts of Notting Hill Gate.

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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Holborn
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    #11 - Holborn

    S1:E1

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the abandoned branch line between Holborn and Aldwych. And at Holloway Road they find out about the Tube's only spiral escalator.

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    #12 - North End

    S1:E2

    Visit one of London Underground’s most secret places: North End under Hampstead Heath. Abandoned before completion, the station became a Cold War bunker.

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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Piccadilly Circus
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    #13 - Piccadilly Circus

    S1:E3

    Explore the disused parts of Piccadilly Circus, the grandest station on the London Underground. And they also visit the long-abandoned Highgate surface station.

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  15. Background image for Euston and York Road
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    #14 - Euston and York Road

    S1:E4

    Explore the hidden parts of Euston, including unique features not found elsewhere and the bits set for demolition for HS2. Siddy also visits York Road station.

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  16. Background image for St Mary's, Aldgate East and Oxford Circus
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    #15 - St Mary's, Aldgate East and Oxford Circus

    S1:E5

    Have a night-time track walk exploring long forgotten stations on the District line in Whitechapel. And they discover how sprawling Oxford Circus was first built.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Clapham South and Moorgate
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    #16 - Clapham South and Moorgate

    S1:E6

    Explore Clapham South deep level shelter, where thousands of Londoners slept in the war. They also visit Moorgate, and the remains of a tunnelling machine there.

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  18. Background image for Camden and Sloane Square
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    #17 - Camden and Sloane Square

    S3:E1

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the labyrinthine Camden Town station, and the forgotten wartime shelter built beneath. Plus, Siddy visits a station which hides a lost river.

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  19. Background image for South Kensington and Marylebone
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    #18 - South Kensington and Marylebone

    S3:E2

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the disused areas of South Kensington station, with platforms reclaimed by nature and wartime uses. Siddy also heads to Marylebone to reveal the original features on the platforms and the tube infrastructure hidden within the walls of a hotel.

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  20. Background image for Green Park (Dover Street) and Down Street
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    #19 - Green Park (Dover Street) and Down Street

    S3:E3

    Tim and Siddy are heading to a station you won’t find on modern-day tube maps – Dover Street, now known as Green Park. During the Second World War the abandoned passageways and lift shafts of the original station had an incredible second life as the base for the London Passenger Transport Board whose work kept London’s transport moving against all odds. Next, Siddy delves into the abandoned corridors and platforms of Down Street, closed to the public in 1932, and the scene of some of the most pivotal decisions of World War II.

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  21. Background image for British Museum and Leinster Gardens
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    #20 - British Museum and Leinster Gardens

    S3:E4

    Tim and Siddy embark on a night-time track walk to the abandoned station of British Museum. The pair discover enormous 1930s hand-painted adverts and evocative white tiling. During the second world war it served as a shelter and spine-tingling clues to the children who stayed there during The Blitz can still be seen. Siddy visits the elegant, white-stuccoed houses of Leinster Gardens, which are hiding a stunning secret of the London Underground behind their walls. These aren't all real houses at all, they are in fact, an incredible quirk of the Underground's history of steam.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #21 - West Ashfield and Oval

    S3:E5

    Tube fans would be right in thinking there are 272 Underground stations on the network, but Siddy Holloway has such unique access, today she is taking Tim Dunn to the 273rd. This station only has a west bound platform, no customers and no members of the public will ever board its trains. Situated on the 3rd floor of an unassuming tower block in west London, this is TFL's state of the art training facility. Siddy also heads to one of the oldest and friendliest deep level stations at Oval. She reveals unusual brick lift shafts, surprising ventilation and the international phenomena that started life on a simple station white board. At the depot Tim explores the wild world of experimental and innovative trains and has a mind-blowing experience when he samples hot sauce, homegrown on a tube station platform.

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  23. Background image for Leicester Square and Hyde Park Corner
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    #22 - Leicester Square and Hyde Park Corner

    S3:E6

    Tim and Siddy are exploring the station in the beating heart of London's theatreland - Leicester Square. It's a place adored by tourists and culture lovers but very few know of the secrets hidden below ground. Siddy reveals the extraordinary previous life of the station office - as a display cabinet for V&A antiquities. The pair then ride what was once the world's longest escalator at 54m, explore layers of the stations design history hidden in unassuming cupboards and see the unique wartime communication infrastructure still stored in abandoned lift shafts. Tim learns more about the work to preserve the networks heritage from TFL's Ann Gavaghan. Siddy visits the tourist hot spot of Hyde Park Corner, where the stunning Oxblood Leslie Green station building has had a renaissance as a high-end hotel. She delves into its abandoned cross passages, adorned by stunning original tiles and reveals enormous fans and gloriously aging stair shafts.

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  24. Background image for Heathrow and Swiss Cottage
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    #23 - Heathrow and Swiss Cottage

    S3:E7

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway pack their bags to go on a trip around the sprawling Heathrow Airport underground stations - the first ever underground rail link between an airport and a city. They start their trip at the original Heathrow Central, now Heathrow Terminals 2 and 3, stopping off at Hatton Cross, with its eye-popping 70's mosaic tiling and speedbird logos, before they finally reach the futuristic 80's design of Terminal 4. Finally, they embark on a special trip along the Heathrow loop, the tube tunnel link which passes underneath the runway. Climbing through the driver's cab, they alight at a secret platform to explore a ventilation shaft and emerge above ground to the sound of aircraft. Next, Siddy heads to north west London to delve into Swiss Cottage station, one of the first stations to be built on the expanding Metropolitan Railway. With those original platforms closed to the public 80 years ago, she explores what remains of that forgotten world.

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    #24 - Shepherd's Bush and Elephant & Castle

    S3:E8

    Shepherd's Bush is a fabulous example of how the network has changed and adapted over time and Siddy Holloway knows where all the best bits are, ready to show Tim Dunn. Just off the platforms the pair discover Victorian glass tiles, long abandoned passenger tunnels from the original Central London Line, epic vents with an eye-level view of people on the platforms and a lift shaft with an escalator through the middle. They visit a gigantic cavern hidden within the body of the station and the perfect example of how nature sometimes beats the best laid engineering plans. Siddy delves into Elephant & Castle, a small station that packs a big punch. She discovers what it takes to be at the helm of a train from driver Jennifer, reveals the only original 1890 tiles still visible to the public and the spooky discoveries hidden behind a platform door.

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    #25 - Acton Works and South Acton

    S3:E9

    Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore the sprawling TFL maintenance facility - Acton Works. Staying in Acton, Siddy reveals an oddity of Underground history.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Quainton Road and Kingsway" is the best rated episode of "Secrets of the London Underground". It scored 8.3/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/23/2022. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "London Bridge and Ongar".