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Guided tours worth booking: walks led by people who know the streets, and the bus, river and cycling tours that earn their fare. Each is drawn on the map as the ground it covers, from where it meets.

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The Lure of the Underground

The world's first underground railway, told from the station that still looks like 1863.

Every Tuesday, 10:45Walking

The Metropolitan Railway opened in 1863 and was built by digging a trench along the road and roofing it over, which is why the oldest stretch runs where it does. Baker Street still has the original platforms with their arched recesses, and the walk uses them as the starting point for how the network was built, who fought it, and what it did to the shape of London above ground.

Where
Baker Street station, the Marylebone Road exit
Nearest station
Baker Street · 1 min walk

Adult £20, students and seniors £15, children £5

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