Visitors to the London Transport Museum will be able to get a glimpse of the city’s complex network of underground tunnels thanks to a new exhibition.

“Breakthrough: Crossrail’s tunnelling story” will open on February 1st. It will include a recreation of the tunnelling environment, and allow visitors to discover first-hand accounts of life working on the project. There will also be a computer simulation of a giant boring machine in action.

But the star attraction is expected to be a five metre cross-section of a Crossrail tunnel, which people can walk through to get a true sense of what it would be like to be involved.

The timing seems particularly apt, as the Crossrail tunnels are due to be completed in coming months, when the east-west breakthrough is reached at Farringdon by tunnelling machine Elizabeth.

Once completed, the Crossrail route will cover over 100 km of tunnels from Maidenhead and Heathrow to Shenfield and Abbey Wood via Central London.