{"id":159948,"date":"2025-06-05T10:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159948\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:20:26","slug":"take-a-heritage-journey-on-a-vintage-art-deco-tube-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/159948\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Heritage Journey On A Vintage Art Deco Tube This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"an Art Deco train travelling along the tracks, with the train driver visible through the window wearing a hi-vis\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1938-Stock-previous-journey-Copyright-London-Transport-Museum-2-1024x768.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCopyright: London Transport Museum<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly it\u2019s not particularly rare for you to find me banging on about how great the <strong>London Underground<\/strong> is. I just love it, you know? Our pioneering public transport network has been ferrying folk across the capital city for<strong> over 160 years<\/strong>. So there\u2019s a lot to wax lyrical about. But my Tube-related ramblings don\u2019t quite so often come in the form of this rail-y great news\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This summer, some<strong> very lucky Londoners<\/strong> will have the chance to hop aboard a beautifully-restored vintage Tube train and journey back in time. Back to a time with no smartphones, no Oyster cards, and most certainly no Citymapper \u2013 can you even imagine? That\u2019s right, folks, <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/transport-museum-depot\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/transport-museum-depot\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_0\" data-category=\"click_internal\">London Transport Museum<\/a> are back with their <strong>heritage train journeys<\/strong>; and this time they\u2019re heading to the Piccadilly Line.<\/p>\n<p> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-189605\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"refurbished 1938-tube stock\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/refurbished-1938-tube-stock-1960s-1989-Copy.jpg-666x375.webp.webp\"\/>Copyright: London Transport Museum  The trains <\/p>\n<p>The iconic 1<strong>938 Stock of Tube trains<\/strong> represented the ultimate melding of cutting-edge technology (well, for its time) and gorgeous 1930s aesthetics. Each train was made up of four cars, and boasted a dreamy Art Deco design. A true trailblazer in the transport world, they were<strong> the first Tube trains<\/strong> to have all the electrical equipment underneath the floor. And they ran along several <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/most-underground-tube-lines\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/most-underground-tube-lines\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_1\" data-category=\"click_internal\">deep-level Tube lines<\/a> for around half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Now, over 85 years later, mere mortals like you and I are being given the chance to experience these very same trains in all their vintage glory.<strong> The trains have been lovingly-restored<\/strong>, complete with classic <a href=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/london-undergrounds-seats\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_self\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/secretldn.com\/london-undergrounds-seats\/\" data-action=\"text_cta_2\" data-category=\"click_internal\">moquette seating<\/a> and Art Deco light fittings. And they are very almost ready to depart.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164644\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"The art deco train on the tracks\" width=\"666\" height=\"500\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1938-Stock-previous-journey-copyright-London-Transport-Museum-666x500.jpg\"\/>Copyright London Transport Museum The \u2018Piccadilly Medley\u2019 heritage journeys <\/p>\n<p>There will be three different<strong> \u2018Piccadilly Medley\u2019<\/strong> heritage journeys running along the Piccadilly Line across the weekend of July 11 \u2013 July 13. The first of the trio of trips will leave from Northfields at various times on July 11. It will whizz around <strong>The Heathrow Loop (via Terminal 4)<\/strong> and back again, taking 45-50 minutes in total.<\/p>\n<p>The second heritage journey will be chugging along between <strong>Acton Town and Uxbridge on July 12<\/strong>. It will pass through traditional Charles Holden stations to celebrate<strong> 150 years of his design work<\/strong> and take around 90 minutes in total.<\/p>\n<p>And the final heritage journey will see some fortunate folk ferried between <strong>Ealing Broadway and Cockfosters<\/strong>. Passengers will have the very rare opportunity to travel on a heritage train through the tunnels of the <strong>London Underground<\/strong>. This journey can be booked as a single or return journey, with each stretch lasting around 70 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about these heritage train journeys and book your ticket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ltmuseum.co.uk\/whats-on\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"shortcode-outbound-link\" data-has-ga=\"true\" data-ga-type=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.ltmuseum.co.uk\/whats-on\" data-action=\"text_cta_3\" data-tracked=\"1\" data-category=\"click_sales\" data-cp_smn_source=\"secretldn\" data-cp_smn_content=\"heritage-train-rides-london\" data-cp_smn_term=\"text_cta_3\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Copyright: London Transport Museum Admittedly it\u2019s not particularly rare for you to find me banging on about how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,17009,257,19658,14299,10763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-159948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-local-trip","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-public-transport-tickets","14":"tag-summer","15":"tag-trip-travel","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114630258030573604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}