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Post by compsci on Sept 14, 2015 9:43:22 GMT
Since it is now on the museum website I can tell you that there will be tours of Down Street in late November and December without fear of being pushed down a disused lift shaft. It's been in the pipeline for the best part of a year. Tickets as £75 (£70 concession). This is largely a function of the expected interest and the number of people who can fit in there at once, which is no more than 20 per tour. There just isn't as much contiguous space as at the other stations that have been opened for tours previously. I will be the guide for some of the weekend tours. Exact details are still being sorted, though I expect that I will have my first site visit at some point next month. |
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Post by londonstuff on Sept 14, 2015 14:12:38 GMT
Since it is now on the museum website I can tell you that there will be tours of Down Street in late November and December without fear of being pushed down a disused lift shaft. It's been in the pipeline for the best part of a year. Tickets as £75 (£70 concession). This is largely a function of the expected interest and the number of people who can fit in there at once, which is no more than 20 per tour. There just isn't as much contiguous space as at the other stations that have been opened for tours previously. I will be the guide for some of the weekend tours. Exact details are still being sorted, though I expect that I will have my first site visit at some point next month. Thanks so much for this. Do you know the approximate date of when tours are likely to go on sale - obviously it might be very nebulous at this stage, which I understand. |
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Post by compsci on Sept 14, 2015 14:34:40 GMT
I was told that tickets would be on sale "next month" last month, so that gives a window of the next two weeks. Read what you like into the window for registering for the newsletter in order to get priority booking already having closed.
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Post by Tubeboy on Sept 14, 2015 17:29:51 GMT
Would love to go on this, but £75 a ticket is ridiculous.
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Post by londonstuff on Sept 14, 2015 18:43:05 GMT
Would love to go on this, but £75 a ticket is ridiculous. I'd imagine that it'll be a bit like Steam on the Met - the first journey was really expensive and I think I may have paid £150. No doubt as/if it opens slightly more regularly the prices will come down a bit. Good business sense, really. |
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Post by keerde on Sept 15, 2015 4:14:06 GMT
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Post by compsci on Sept 15, 2015 11:41:10 GMT
I now know that priority booking for newsletter subscribers opens at 1000 on Tuesday 22nd September, with the remaining tickets (if any) on sale at 1000 on Wednesday 23rd September. There are different arrangements for LTM Friends. If this applies to you and you are on their mailing list you will have just received an email with the details.
All bookings are handled by the website. Please don't jam the museum switchboard as they won't be able to help.
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Post by hobbayne on Sept 15, 2015 12:37:03 GMT
Discount for LUL staff??
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Post by tjw on Sept 15, 2015 12:47:30 GMT
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Post by compsci on Sept 15, 2015 13:10:58 GMT
"Smoking is not prohibited within the Station." Tells museum before anyone gets any ideas. |
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Post by tjw on Sept 15, 2015 13:14:43 GMT
Thanks, I thought someone on here would see it, and know who to call.
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Post by compsci on Sept 16, 2015 15:25:23 GMT
If you are subscribed to the museum's email newsletter you should now have received details of the 24 hour priority booking period.
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Post by trash80 on Sept 21, 2015 18:51:22 GMT
Yes booked for Aldwych in January, excited though long time to wait!
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Post by londonstuff on Sept 22, 2015 9:35:44 GMT
Just been trying to book Down Street and Charing Cross for the past half an hour. Unsurprisingly the site has been unresponsive for half an hour and tickets don't even seem to have gone on sale yet. Aghhhhhhh.
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Post by 315 on Sept 22, 2015 9:53:50 GMT
The website appears to be down now :-(
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Post by camperdown9 on Sept 22, 2015 11:17:21 GMT
Just managed to book Down Street for December and Aldwych for January. I tried earlier and its just kept crashing.
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Post by MoreToJack on Sept 22, 2015 12:50:39 GMT
Another tranche of 'Hidden London' tours and another round of booking problems... not that I'm tooooo surprised.
Good luck to everyone still trying to get tickets, and enjoy the trips to everyone who has secured them. I was lucky enough to visit Down Street a couple of months back and it really is a fantastic experience, although I don't know how much will be seen (We had unrestricted access). Must get those photos online!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2015 19:35:17 GMT
I would have loved to do Down Street but there's no way I could justify the price of £70 plus booking fee.
It's a bit galling that the Friends only got a £5 discount when the free entry to the museum offered with the ticket offers no benefit as we already get free entry
Hopefully this will be like Steam on the Underground the first time is expensive and it gets cheaper in future years.
Hope all those that could afford tickets have a great time, looking forward to all the pictures.
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Post by snoggle on Sept 22, 2015 20:36:47 GMT
Hopefully this will be like Steam on the Underground the first time is expensive and it gets cheaper in future years. Dream on - every event the Museum does that is remotely "unusual" is now priced at ridiculous levels. There are obviously financial pressures at the Museum and they need to earn money but it's almost as if the place has caught "gentrification disease" where everything now has a price premium attached and I can only see this situation getting worse and worse. It's very sad for those on lowish incomes who can't partake of London's transport heritage in the way that was possible a few years ago. I certainly can't justify spending £70 to see a bit of a disused station. |
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Post by londonstuff on Sept 22, 2015 21:23:58 GMT
I eventually got to book at about 11:30 - basically an hour and a half of trying, but as Jack said, I'm not surprised the whole thing crashed.
I was in the middle of something else at the time and ended up booking tickets for about 1:30pm on the first day, that I definitely know I can't do. To be sure I booked ones later on for 5:30pm though I'm not going to enjoy telephoning the LTM tomorrow to try to get them to put the first lot back on sale, though it's now completely sold out even before going open to the public. Should be fun :/
Even Charing Cross only has a few left.
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Post by camperdown9 on Sept 23, 2015 6:13:47 GMT
Why don't they offer more tours? I have have been lucky and got tickets for both Down Street and Aldwych. But I have wanted to go on the Aldwych tour for a good 18 months.
As the availability is so limited does this not show that there is a market for this kind of tour and if so could they maybe run more tours? Maybe every Friday with one or two time slots.
Alex
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Post by MoreToJack on Sept 23, 2015 13:48:09 GMT
Why don't they offer more tours? I have have been lucky and got tickets for both Down Street and Aldwych. But I have wanted to go on the Aldwych tour for a good 18 months. As the availability is so limited does this not show that there is a market for this kind of tour and if so could they maybe run more tours? Maybe every Friday with one or two time slots. Alex The Museum are restricted to when LU will allow them access. Both Charing Cross and Down Street are part of the operational railway which means that special provision has to be made to allow the tours to take place. Aldwych and Charing Cross are also both used for filming and other purposes, so any tours have to be timetabled around other revenue streams for the company. Down Street is also, in part, listed, and has many original features still in tact. Over use is only going to increase wear, and that's not a positive step. Let's be grateful that the tours are happening at all - there is clearly a market, but were it a regular occurrence I expect that demand would very quickly reduce. |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 23, 2015 14:35:31 GMT
I wonder if they could add York Road & South Kentish Town in & possibly The Melton Street Euston and Brompton Road onto the itinerary? There's plenty to see at each one, I understand.
If it were possible to get attendable venues up to six, then three tours a year, at maximum four, per venue, would not slake demand & would not interfere unduly with the operational railway aspect in the way it does at Charing Cross.
Worth a thought?
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Post by rsdworker on Sept 23, 2015 20:56:31 GMT
I wonder if they could add York Road & South Kentish Town in & possibly The Melton Street Euston and Brompton Road onto the itinerary? There's plenty to see at each one, I understand. If it were possible to get attendable venues up to six, then three tours a year, at maximum four, per venue, would not slake demand & would not interfere unduly with the operational railway aspect in the way it does at Charing Cross. Worth a thought? Charing Cross station is live operation which trains can used in emergency or used for storage but other times - trains can use platforms to bring passgeners for movie shootings or events in station - one recent example - night movie in station |
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Post by theblackferret on Sept 23, 2015 21:03:47 GMT
I wonder if they could add York Road & South Kentish Town in & possibly The Melton Street Euston and Brompton Road onto the itinerary? There's plenty to see at each one, I understand. If it were possible to get attendable venues up to six, then three tours a year, at maximum four, per venue, would not slake demand & would not interfere unduly with the operational railway aspect in the way it does at Charing Cross. Worth a thought? Charing Cross station is live operation which trains can used in emergency or used for storage but other times - trains can use platforms to bring passgeners for movie shootings or events in station - one recent example - night movie in station Thanks-that's handy info, because of those I named, I think Brompton Road's been sold into private hands now, so may be we'll need Charing X after all. |
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Post by howda62 on Sept 24, 2015 8:17:06 GMT
In the case of Down Street, I notice TfL is seeking to find a commercial opportunity for the site: tfl.gov.uk/info-for/business-and-commercial/commercial-opportunities/new-projects?intcmp=5573
There's some interesting ideas in the brochure on that page on how the station could be adapted to a business use. If they gain interest in this, there may not be many more opportunities to see Down Street in its disused form, though of course depending on what type of business takes up the offer, there may be cheap opportunities to visit the adapted part of it.
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Post by pitdiver on Sept 24, 2015 15:45:05 GMT
Just to think when I worked at the LT Museum I lost count of how many time I visited Aldwych and Down St. Also had the opportunity to go to Brompton Rd and Euston disused. Charing Cross was still in ful opration then no closed parts.
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Post by camperdown9 on Dec 2, 2015 19:29:58 GMT
My Down St tour is tomorrow, really looking forward to it!
The ticket includes 10% of purchases from the London Underground Shop, Does anyone know if I can order a luggage rack from the Covent Garden shop and get my 10% off?
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Post by compsci on Dec 3, 2015 8:08:41 GMT
Luggage racks certainly aren't excluded from the discount (though I got 20% off for being a Friend), though I'm not certain if your discount applies to things that aren't stocked in CG. Your best bet is to ask one of the museum duty managers (not the guides though they'll know who the manager is). There is one on every tour.
Having said that there is a reasonable likelihood that there are a couple of luggage racks stashed in a corner of the shop.
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Post by londonstuff on Dec 3, 2015 14:16:32 GMT
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