Dream of travelling to a bygone London? This September you can do just that, thanks to a series of heritage rides on a 1938 Tube train.
The burgundy-hued art deco style train — consisting of four carriages, and replete with wooden frames windows, sleek light fittings, and a sumptuous red and green cut and loop wool moquette — is running heritage trips on the Metropolitan line this September, for a ‘Metro-land special’.
The journeys — which take place between Amersham and Harrow-on-the-Hill, with select services via Watford — — are on Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 September 2025. There are multiple trips on each day.
Though you can’t reserve individual seats, carriages are divvied into ‘Gold’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Bronze’. Fittingly, early London Underground trains were actually split into classes.
In all, over 1,100 of these 1938 cars were built — with some still in use in London up until 1988. A handful of the trains were recycled on the Isle of Wight’s Island Line, but in 2020 these were replaced with ‘new’ (aka 1980s) London Underground stock.
Nowadays, you can see these beauts in museums and depots, but only occasionally get a chance to ride on one.
Unfortunately these heritage rides are very much NOT at 1938 prices: adult tickets start at £17, going up to £27.50, although there are concession rates for kids. As usual with these rides, spaces are going fast.
If you’re looking for a thriftier heritage Tube experience, you can always hop on the Bakerloo line, the stock of which which is half a century old and counting.
Heritage Tube rides, 5-7 September 2025.
