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Tom booked us on a Hidden London tour of the secret platforms in Charing Cross station.
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The Jubilee line used to stop at Charing Cross but stopped in 1999 leaving two ghost platforms.
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The platforms are used for lots of filming, so all the posters are for generic attractions, fake plays and movies that don't exist.
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If you looked closely you could spot spelling mistakes and typos in some of the posters.
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One of the roundels had been covered with metallic tape and looked really cool.
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We then made our way into the stairwell where James Bond slid down the middle of the escalators in Skyfall.
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They pointed out a hatch that was featured in the movie Creep.
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We then made our way down a tunnel which was used during the construction of the station.
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It was so long that it stretches all the way back to the portrait gallery and was used for storing art during the war.
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At the end of the tunnel, we were standing underneath Nelson's Column.
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We made our way back through the public station and then went through a gate alongside one of the corridors.
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It was strange creeping along in the dark while regular commuters walked past in the corridor to our left, not realising we were there.
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Eventually we popped out in the ventilation shaft above the platform, looking down on the trains passing below.
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At the other side of the tunnel, we popped out in a giant air duct where you could see all the way up to the surface and all the way down into another deep dark tunnel.
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