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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.

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.

One of the roundels had been covered with metallic tape and looked really cool.

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.

We then made our way down a tunnel which was used during the construction of the station.

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.

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.

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.

We had tickets for Sounds Like Friday Night at Television Centre in the evening, so we made our way to White City.

The show is the BBC's new take on Top Of The Pops and Chvrches were playing their new single, so it was great to see them.

We went for dinner at Homeslice Pizza afterwards who were celebrating their birthday with £10 off pizza.

The 20" pizza was so big that it barely fit on the table.

We ordered one to share with half mushroom, ricotta and pumpkin side and the other half, butternut, kale, goats cheese and nigella crumb.

It was delicious, though we only managed to eat about a quarter so had to take the rest home in a giant pizza box.