London Underground trains generally run between 5am and midnight Monday to Saturday. Operating hours are slightly reduced on Sunday. Night Tube trains run on some lines throughout the night on Fridays and Saturdays.
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What is the Night Tube?
A 24-hour service now runs on the Central, Victoria, Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines on Fridays and Saturdays.
Trains run every 10 or 20 minutes, depending on stations.
This new service runs alongside existing Night Bus and taxi services.
Running 24/7 requires 4 lines (like the New York subway). In off-peak hours you have two lines for trains, one line your maintaining and one line to get the maintenance staff there.
Tube first and last timesThe first tube trains start running from around 5.00–5.30am. The last tube trains leave central London around 12.30am (see the Night Tube below). Most trains start at least an hour later on Sundays. The exact start and finish times vary according to each individual underground line.
The Central Line was opened in 1900 and is forty six miles long, making it the longest line of the system, between the stations of West Ruislip and Epping. The Central Line is one of only two lines which have stations outside the boundaries of Greater London.
The Night Tube runs 24 hours at the weekend on some lines. Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Five Tube lines run a 24-hour service on Fridays and Saturdays: Victoria, Central, Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
Not including the Elizabeth line, which technically is not a standard Tube line, the line which is the fastest therefore is the Metropolitan Line. It is the fastest line on average across London but also has the fastest stretch of line - where trains can reach that magic speed of 60mph.
As a general rule a Travelcard is more expensive than an Oyster card or Contactless payment card. The exception is if you make 3 or more journeys for 6 days or more within a 7 day period. In this case a 7 day Travelcard works out cheaper than an Oyster or Contactless payment card.
The London Overground Night Service operates Friday and Saturday nights into the early hours of Saturday and Sunday mornings between New Cross Gate and Highbury & Islington, with trains every 15 minutes. The Night Tube operates on five London Underground lines.
It is a fast, frequent service. Trains will run every five minutes between Paddington and Abbey Wood from 06.30 and 23.00 Monday to Saturday. The Elizabeth line offers a whole host of new travel opportunities across east and west London or beyond Paddington to Heathrow and the West Country.
But in Central London, the stations are so close together that the trains need to start and stop the whole time. When you include the time spent at these stops, plus the need to speed up and brake between each, London Underground reckon they get an average of around 20 mph across the network.