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Key information
Date: Saturday 13 July 2024
Time: 3:45pm to 6:40pm
Venue: Trafalgar Square, Westminster, London, WC2N 5DN, GB
Cost: FREE
About the event
Experience a concert like no other as the London Symphony Orchestra perform in one of London’s most iconic public spaces, Trafalgar Square, free for everyone to enjoy.
Join the Orchestra and conductor Duncan Ward for works by Chabrier, Brahms and Stravinsky, plus the world premiere of Joanna Lee’s beams.bellows.bounds together with 50 young musicians from East London.
Gates open at 3.45pm for a 5pm start. For further information on the event, visit the LSO website.
Plan your visit
You can plan your journey with TfL’s Journey Planner.
Bus
- Routes 3, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 23, 24, 53, 77A, 88, 91, 139, 159, 176 and 453.
- All these routes lead to Trafalgar Square. However, 9 and 15 are heritage buses and do not have a low-floor.
- Visit the TfL website for more information on buses.
Tube
- The nearest Underground station with step-free access from platform to street level is Westminster. This is served by the Jubilee, District and Circle lines. Outside Westminster station buses 12, 24, 88 or 453 have low-floor buses which call at a stop within 150m of Trafalgar Square.
- Charing Cross Underground station is served by the Northern and Bakerloo lines. It is the closest Tube station. However, it does not have step-free access.
- Visit the TfL website for accessible Tube maps.
National Rail
- The nearest railway station is Charing Cross. It is 325 metres away, approximately 3 minutes’ walk. Charing Cross rail station offers step-free access and a step-free route to Trafalgar Square.
- Dial-a-ride
- Find out about registering and pre-booking Dial-a-ride services.
Accessible parking
- The nearest Blue Badge parking spaces to Trafalgar Square are:
- St Martin’s Street – five spaces - 321 metres from Trafalgar Square
- Outside Canada House – one space - 33 metres from Trafalgar Square
- Suffolk Street – one space - 644 metres from Trafalgar Square
- Spring Gardens – one space - 321 metres from Trafalgar Square
To find other blue badge parking bays nearby, you can find disabled Blue Badge bays on the City of Westminster’s website using the postcode WC2N 5DN.
We want to make the event as accessible and inclusive as possible for everyone and have the following provisions in place:
- A level, step-free access area in the centre of the Upper Terrace with seating and wheelchair spaces, together with seating on raised platform behind for those with less limited mobility.
- The best entry points for the access area are either side of The National Gallery. You may find it easiest to enter the Square via the north west corner by the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, which is normally slightly less busy.
- There is space for companions, however due to limited capacity entry is limited to groups of two.
- Places in the access area are limited and will be able to be reserved in advance via this page from 10am on Tuesday 9 July.
- There will also be a small number of places available on the day on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Those with reservations should arrive in by 4.30pm, otherwise their places will be added to the first-come, first-served allocation.
- The front, level section of the access area is equipped with a hearing loop.
- There is a portable accessible toilet on the Upper Terrace, in addition to the accessible toilet within the permanent toilet block on lower part of the Square. Please note that the lifts between the Upper Terrace and lower part of the Square are not currently in operation.
- Large print programmes are available on request.
- Assistance dogs are welcome.