Clapham South Halloween Tour Opens Hidden London Shelter to New Areas
London Transport Museum is launching its first Halloween-themed Hidden London tour at deep-level shelter in Clapham South, combining wartime history, Underground folklore, and recorded accounts of unusual experiences beneath the capital.
Clapham South: Ghosts of the Underground will run from 21 October to 1 November 2026, with four tours a day from Wednesday to Sunday. Tickets start at £39 for adults and £36 for concessions and children. The minimum age is 10, although the experience has been designed primarily for adult audiences.
Led by expert guides, visitors will descend 11 floors beneath south London’s streets into a network of corridors, former sleeping quarters, and wartime spaces. The Halloween experience will use an entrance not included in the museum’s regular Clapham South shelter tour, giving visitors access to areas not previously opened to the public.
Completed in 1944, Clapham South was one of eight deep-level shelters built beneath London during the Second World War to protect civilians from air raids. It could accommodate around 8,000 people, offering refuge during a period when bombing threatened lives across the capital.
The new tour will bring those experiences into focus through recently researched wartime stories, including accounts of Londoners who sought safety underground. These historical narratives will be combined with recorded interviews from current and former London Underground staff, recalling unusual sounds, unexpected sightings, and incidents that have stayed with them throughout their working lives.
Longstanding Underground legends and stories passed between railway staff and commuters will also feature. Atmospheric lighting, sound, projections, and immersive storytelling will connect different periods of the shelter’s history, bringing together the experiences of wartime Londoners, those who work beneath the city today, and visitors exploring its largely deserted tunnels.
The experience marks the first Halloween-special tour in the museum’s Hidden London programme, which began in 2015. The award-winning series takes visitors into normally inaccessible parts of the transport network, including disused stations, former shelters, and locations used for filming.
Tickets include half-price one-day admission to London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, redeemable within a month of the tour date. Visitors will also receive a 10 per cent discount on full-priced products in the museum shops. Under-18s enter the museum free.
Bookings are available through the London Transport Museum’s Hidden London website.
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