Private London Underground Walking Tour

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Mind the gap and welcome aboard our London Tube Walking Tour! Mind the gap and welcome aboard our London Underground Walking Tour. The walking tour of the world's first underground railway lasts approximately two hours and you will travel through 150 years of London’s Underground history. Your private small group tour will start at Paddington station and take you to some of London’s most famous, deepest, oldest, most beautiful, and peculiar underground stations. As part of the walking tour, you will learn about the evolution of the London underground system when it was founded in 1863. You will also get to understand how the different tube lines used to be owned by rival companies and find out why we now have electric trains instead of steam engines. With so many fascinating aspects to the story of the London Underground such as the design of the stations, engineering principles, its places in popular culture, and of course its place within the story of modern London are all discussed as part of the London Underground Walking Tour. On each tour the route may change slightly depending on improvement work on the network, the time and day you do the tour, and your preferences.