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Which London stations are shut or closing soon? Your Tube and train travel guide

Once again, TfL will be performing necessary repairs, thus some stations will be partially or completely closed.

Use the TfL app or website to acquire the most current information for the Underground.

Here is a complete list of Tube stations that will not be running at full service in the months ahead.

Waterloo & City

Service operates Monday to Friday between 6am and 12.30am only.

There is no service on Saturdays, Sundays, nor public/bank holidays.

District Line

There will be no service between Earls Court and Ealing Broadway/Kensington Olympia/Richmond on the District Line between July 20 and 21.

Use London Overground services between Gunnersbury and Richmond where available. Replacement bus services operate.

London Overground

There will be two delays for the London Overground.

Between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction, there will be no service on July 21.

Replacement bus service M operates between Canada Water and Clapham Junction via Surrey Quays, Queens Road Peckham, Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road.

There will be no service between July 20 and August 2 between Hackney Downs and Chingford.

Replacement bus service L3 operates between Hackney Downs and Chingford via Clapton, St James’s Street, Walthamstow Central, Wood Street, and Highams Park.

Piccadilly Line

There will be no service between King’s Cross and Heathrow/Uxbridge (all terminals) on July 20 and 21.

This includes Saturday night / Sunday morning night Tube. Replacement bus services operate.

An artist’s impression of how Colindale station will look (TfL)

Colindale Station, part of Northern Line

Lasting until December, Colindale station will be closed for a significant capacity expansion that will involve the installation of step-free access.

Customers are encouraged to use the bus to Burnt Oak or Hendon Central stations during the closure, or to Kingsbury in order to access the Jubilee line. As an alternative, customers can go to Hendon or Mill Hill Broadway to board a Thameslink train.

Escalator repair work is being made at Kentish Town (Nick Moore / Alamy / PA)

Kentish Town station, part of Northern Line

While station upgrades, including the replacement of escalators, are being carried out, Kentish Town station will be closed and Northern line trains will not stop there until after the summer.

TFL said due to other “unrelated work” that needs to be carried out at the station, Kentish Town will not be in use until September. Other maintenance repairs that will be carried out include deep cleaning of the station, painting and installing floor and wall tiling.

Central line

Londoners may have noticed a reduced service on the Central line since November 2023.

It’s not clear when Central line services will return to normal, with trains now running every 15 minutes. There is crowding on the Tube's longest line as a result of the 15-minute delays.

Due to a persistent lack of trains, the line has occasionally only been able to run around half of the 78 trains needed to run a peak service.

TFL says the disruptions are likely to continue for weeks, but they are trying to remedy the situation as quickly as they can. TfL commissioner Andy Lord acknowledged that a lack of money for frequent "heavy overhauls" over the past few years may cause the shortfall of trains to spread to other lines, including the Bakerloo, Northern, and Piccadilly, before its new trains arrive in 2025.

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