Google Street View has added London’s tube stations to its maps
It’s now possible to use Google Street View to remotely visit a load of central London’s busiest tube stations.

Apart from casual curiosity, feedback from TfL’s Disability Advisory Group indicated that being able to see within stations before visiting them would benefit people with access needs or those unfamiliar with travelling in London.
From today, 18 central London tube, Elizabeth line, and Network Rail stations are available on Street View, and that number will double to 36 stations by the end of the year and even more next year.
The project, which started a year ago, has seen Google capture 360-degree images inside a number of London Underground and Elizabeth line stations across central London, as well as at Network Rail stations where they interconnect with TfL services. Google’s blurring technology was then automatically applied to blur identifiable faces to protect customers and staff’s privacy.
The Deputy Mayor for Transport, Seb Dance, said: “I’m pleased that Google Street View has arrived at some of London’s busiest stations. Now, customers can plan their routes on the London Underground in the same way they would when walking and cycling, helping us to build a better, fairer London for all.”
Stations live now
- Baker Street
- Bank
- Bond Street
- Canada Water
- Cannon Street
- Charing Cross (National Rail)
- Custom House
- Embankment
- Euston Square
- Farringdon
- London Bridge
- Monument
- Old Street
- Oxford Circus
- Tottenham Court Road
- Tottenham Hale
- Westminster
- Whitechapel
Coming soon
- Camden Town
- Canary Wharf
- Canning Town
- Clapham Junction
- Euston
- Green Park
- Hammersmith (District & Piccadilly)
- Hammersmith (Hammersmith & City Line)
- Highbury & Islington
- King’s Cross
- Liverpool Street
- Moorgate
- Paddington
- South Kensington
- St. Pancras
- Stratford
- Victoria Station
- Waterloo
Greater Anglia has also been creating virtual tours of its stations, which they provide on their website.
It would help if Google made the stations more visible on their maps. They often don’t appear at all until you come in close. You can’t plan a visit like that, you need the stations as part of the overall view of the area.
Paddington Elizabeth line live also
I could not enter Bond St station. Does not distinguish entrances and exits, does not show directional corridors.
Guess for H&S camera guy is not allowed on escalators or stairs, be useful to have a last/first picture at the base that connects to the next level.
Street view shows streets and underground passages identically. Ruins street approaches. Should be distinguishable & selectable.
Too much teleportation through walls & sudden ejection outside.
Poorly managed, poorly executed, poorly presented. Like giving everyone cataracts or harking to tourist image of London fog.
The surveys need to be redone after hours with the lights on so there is no blurring of images. More care over lifts and stairs starting and connecting.
Thought to route planning – annotation or up/down option as well as left/down. The floor levels are teleports without guidance. Need to enter the system from outside.
It would help if National Rail could address the basics first for Stratford.
The map on the national rail website is not very clear (doesn’t show which way is the “London” end and which is the “country end”, usual running direction of platforms, and doesn’t show the location of yellow-white and pink Oyster readers).
Maybe google will provide extra clarity.
And the key includes symbols never used on the map and also references Greater Anglia as “Abellio Greater Anglia”, but it is no longer owned by Abellio
Absolutely useless feature, a complete waste of time. When you eventually manage to get the street view into the underground station there are too many blurry images, it jumps about as you try and move around, and it’s impossible to work out where you are in the station. Tried it on a couple of stations I know quite well, and thought I’d try and explore the bits I never go to, but didn’t find it any use.
I thought this would be useful, to navigate from the Elizabeth line platform at Farringdon to the Long Lane exit next to St Bart’s hospital. But since there’s no Google Maps navigation within the station (tried Firefox and Chrome) it’s useless. Hopefully they will get there.
So how do you use this service? Trying to get in to Charing Cross…
It seems to be complete pot luck when you drop the streetview pin onto the map whether you land in the underground station or one the roads above. After several attempts, if you’re lucky, you’ll get into the station, but you won’t have a clue whereabouts you are. Unlike roads, there’s no corresponding map of the station to show you where the view is. Not the usual standard I’d expect from Google, completely useless!
This is unworkable gobblygook. I’m mr average and I see nothing I recognise. Streetview is a dream. This is a nightmare.
This looks like a rough copy on a worktop.
Come on google. Help me to love you. I’ve been needing help at Bank and London Bridge forever. This is not it!!