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Christmas travel

December 20, 2018

    There will be some service changes please check if any of the following affects you.

    Sunday 23 December 2018

    🚇 Tube 🚇

    Metropolitan line

    There is no Metropolitan line service between Aldgate and Wembley Park before 09:30 and after 20:30 Sunday 23 December.

    🚊 Overground🚊

    There are changes to services:

    • Sunday 23 December. No service between Camden Road and Stratford and reduced service between Camden Road and Richmond after 22:00
    • No service between Highbury & Islington and Dalston Junction after 22:00. Use replacement bus services between Highbury & Islington, Canonbury and Dalston Junction.
    • Sunday 23 and Christmas Eve, Monday 24 December. No service between South Tottenham and Barking
    • Sunday 23 and Christmas Eve Monday 24 December. No service between Romford and Upminster: use local London Buses routes 165 248 and 370 instead
    • Sunday 23 December to Monday 1 January. No service between Edmonton Green and Cheshunt: use local bus services or services from Ponders End, Brimsdown, Enfield Lock or Waltham Cross instead.
    • Reduced service between Liverpool Street and Chingford (about every 20 minutes, not stopping at Bethnal Green, Hackney Downs and Clapton)
    • Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 December. Reduced service between Liverpool Street and Edmonton Green / Enfield Town (about every 20 minutes, not stopping at Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath, London Fields and Hackney Downs). No service between Hackney Downs and Enfield Town / Cheshunt (via Seven Sisters). Chingford trains call additionally at Cambridge Heath and London Fields. Replacement buses operate.
    • Please use replacement or local buses
    🚊TfL Rail🚊

    On Sunday 23 December:

    • Sunday 23 and Christmas Eve, 24 December, no service between Paddington and Heathrow Terminal 4.
    • Sunday 23 and Christmas Eve 24 December, no service between Liverpool Street and Shenfield.

    More details about the TfL Rail services here. Please use replacement or local buses.

     🚊National Rail🚊

    Check National Rail’s Christmas page for information about service changes and planned works Sunday 23 December.

    Christmas Eve 2018

    🚇 Tube 🚇

    There is a reduced service:

    • Weekday services are running. They are being reduced from about 15:00
    • Most last trains are at Sunday times
    • The Waterloo & City line is running a reduced service all day, with last trains at about 23:15
    🚊 Overground🚊

    • There are changes to services:
      • On these routes, a weekday service will run, finishing from around 21:30:
        • between Highbury & Islington and Crystal Palace / West Croydon
        • between Dalston Junction and New Cross / Clapham Junction
      • On these routes, a weekday service will run until 12:00. Then a Saturday service will run, with services finishing from around 21:30
        • between Richmond / Clapham Junction and Stratford
        • between Watford Junction and Euston
      • No service between South Tottenham and Barking
      • No service between Romford and Upminster
      • No service between Edmonton Green and Cheshunt
      • Reduced service between Liverpool Street and Chingford (trains run about every 20 minutes, not stopping at Bethnal Green, Hackney Downs and Clapton)
      • Reduced service between Liverpool Street and Edmonton Green/Enfield Town (trains run about every 20 minutes, not stopping at Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath, London Fields and Hackney Downs)
      • Please use replacement or local bus services – see our status updates page
    🚊TfL Rail🚊

    There are no services running Christmas eve. Please use replacement or local buses. See status updates page.

    More details about the TfL Rail services here. Please use replacement or local buses.

     🚌Buses🚌

    Buses will be running a Saturday service on Christmas eve.

    • There are no night services
    • 24-hour services finish around midnight; day buses are operating until normal last bus times
    • There is an enhanced Saturday service on route 507
    • On routes 521 and X68, there is a limited service

    See all Christmas eve’s planned bus changes on: Bus status updates map for Monday 24 December.

     🚊National Rail🚊

    Check National Rail’s Christmas page for information about service changes and planned works.

     

    Christmas Day 2018

    Over the Christmas and New Year period, most of the TfL network is open. However, on Christmas day 2018 there’s no service on public transport.

    These services are not running Christmas day 2018: the Tube, buses, TfL Rail, London Overground, DLR, Trams, Rivers, Emirates Air Line and National Rail. Info

     

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