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London transport on 31 December
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TUBE
Bakerloo line trains will not stop at Regent's Park; Cannon Street station closed on Circle and District lines; no service on Hammersmith & City line between Whitechapel and Barking (use District line instead). After about 2.20am on New Year's Day (4am on the Bakerloo, Northern and Piccadilly lines), Tube service will reduce to quarter-hourly frequency in the central area and half-hourly in outer areas. Leicester Square station will be open only for interchange and exit from 7pm until about 12.15am; Covent Garden station will be open for exit only from 7pm until about 3am; Westminster station will be closed from 9pm until 3am; Embankment station will be closed from midnight until 3am.
BUSES
Sunday timetable. From 7.30pm buses will be gradually withdrawn from central London. Normal services will resume after about 1.30am.
DLR
Sunday timetable. A limited number of trains will provide an overnight service until about 4.30am on Monday.
TRAMLINK
Sunday timetable with some services running through the night.
VICTORIA COACH STATION
Many operators will reduce UK services from early evening with last coaches departing about 8pm. Overnight services to Scotland will operate.
NATIONAL RAIL
Sunday timetable. Some routes have additional departures from midnight to 2am. Fares will apply with the following exceptions, which will be free between about 1am and 5am: One Great Eastern - Liverpool Street to Shenfield; One West Anglia - Liverpool Street to Enfield Town (no stop Cambridge Heath, London Fields); First Great Western - Paddington to Slough (no stop Acton mainline, Iver, Langley); South West Trains - Waterloo to Kingston via Wimbledon; Waterloo to Richmond; First Capital Connect - Blackfriars to Sutton via Mitcham Junction (no stop Elephant & Castle, Loughborough Junction); Southern - Victoria to East Croydon via Selhurst; Southeastern - Victoria to Orpington via Herne Hill (no stop Brixton); Charing Cross to Beckenham Junction via Lewisham, Catford Bridge (no stop St John's); Charing Cross to Dartford via Lewisham, Sidcup (no stop St John's) and to Dartford via Greenwich.
