20/02/2015

24-Hour Weekend Train Service Introduced In London

All-night rail services are to be offered at weekends on Tube services, the London Overground and Docklands Light Railway.

A 24-hour service is to operating on London Underground's Piccadilly, Victoria, Central, Jubilee and Northern lines by the end of the year, with the services to be extended to the Metropolitan, Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines later.

The service will be extended to London Overground services by 2017 and the Docklands Light Railway by 2021.

Introducing the service would add more than £6bn to the London economy by 2030, Mayor Boris Johnson said.

(MH/CD)

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