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.
The Tube fare depends on how far you travel, the time of day, and what type of ticket or payment method you use. Oyster cards or contactless payments are the cheapest ways to pay for Tube journeys. Tube services usually run from 5am until midnight, with Night Tube services on some lines on Friday and Saturday evenings.
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.
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.
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.
You can either get a 24 hour or 7-day Travelcard. Residents can also get monthly or annual Travelcards. When buying a 24 hour Travelcard, you can choose a Day Anytime, which can be used at any time of the day and is valid until 4:30 am the next day.
Likewise, asides from London Underground's Night Tube and special airport services, the majority of trains do not operate 24/7, with services stopping from around 01:00 until 05:00. This means that essential track or train maintenance can be carried out without impacting on passengers' travel plans.
The Elizabeth line is not one of the few Transport for London services to run an all-night timetable, but its trains do start quite early in the morning and run late at night. Only five Tube lines run a 24-hour service on Fridays and Saturdays: the Victoria, Piccadilly, Jubilee, Central and Northern lines.
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.
The Central line is a London Underground line that runs through central London, from Epping, Essex, in the north-east to Ealing Broadway and West Ruislip in west London. Printed in red on the Tube map, the line serves 49 stations over 46 miles (74 km), making it the longest line on the Underground.
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.
There is no price difference between the Oyster card and contactless card. What is this? Every time you travel on London's public transport, your contactless payment card is charged the same fare as your Oyster, including cap prices (the maximum amount you'll pay daily and weekly to travel throughout London).
Ride a London bus no matter the time of nightMany of London's bus routes run all night. Several London bus routes run 24 hours, or look for the N in front of a bus number – this letter indicates a bus that covers the period between the close of the Tube and the start of daytime bus services.
Most train services on the Overground tend to end around midnight, with proposals already confirmed for turning parts of the network into a 24-hour service from December 2017, with off-peak prices being used.
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.
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.