 |
| Newbury Park station which serves the Central Line |
Last year I published an article back on 29th August 2015 when I was disappointed with route 296 operating a
night service in order to connect people from Newbury Park station to Romford.
But thankfully route 296 will operate
their weekend night service in line with the Night Tube on 19th
August 2016.
From TFL press release
TfL introduces new Friday and Saturday
night bus services to support Night Tube
Onward
bus connections for Night Tube customers will be boosted when the new services
launch on 19 August after TfL announced eight
new 24-hour bus services.
The
new 24-hour bus services will run on Friday and Saturday nights to complement the Night Tube and ensure
customers travelling in the early hours of the morning have easy options to get
home.
Night
Tube services begin on the Central and
Victoria lines on Friday and Saturday nights from 19 August, and at the
same time the following bus routes will have 24-hour services for the first
time:
·
34 (Barnet Church to Walthamstow
Central)
·
123 (Ilford High Road to Wood Green)
·
145 (Leytonstone to Dagenham)
·
158 (Stratford to Chingford Mount)
·
296 (Ilford Broadway to Romford)
·
E1 (Greenford Broadway to Ealing
Broadway)
·
W3 (Finsbury Park to Northumberland
Park)
·
W7 (Finsbury Park to Muswell Hill
Broadway).
The
new services will run every 30 minutes throughout Friday and Saturday nights,
other than the W7, which will run every 20 minutes. The enhancements follow the
introduction of seven new night bus services already made in anticipation of
the introduction of the Night Tube.
Mike
Weston, TfL's Director of Buses, said: 'These additional 24-hour bus services
will enhance our London-wide, night time bus network and complement the Night
Tube, making it easier for our customers to get home in the early hours of the
morning.
'This
will enable customers to make the most of London at night and will in turn help
to boost the Capital's vibrant and growing night-time economy.'
There
are a total of 123 bus routes that operate overnight, of which 73 are 24-hour
services and 50 are night bus routes.
The
number of night bus services has increased significantly in recent years with
passenger numbers more than doubling since 2000. More than half the users are
people travelling to or from work.
Ridership
levels on all night bus services will be monitored to see how demand changes
following the introduction of the Night Tube.
London
has one of the most extensive and accessible bus networks anywhere in the
world. TfL's bus network comprises around 700 routes across Greater London,
operated by 7,900 buses at peak times, carrying almost 2.4 billion passengers
every year, which equates to half of all bus journeys made in England.
Since
TfL was formed in 2000 it has invested
strongly in London's bus network - resulting in a 69% increase in passenger
numbers.
·
From Friday 19 August Night Tube
services will operate on the Victoria line with trains running on average every
10 minutes across the entire lines
·
From this date services will also
operate on the Central line with trains running approximately every 10 minutes
between White City and Leytonstone and approximately every 20 minutes between
Ealing Broadway to White City and Leytonstone to Loughton/ Hainault. There will
be no service between North Acton and West Ruislip, Loughton and Epping and
Woodford and Hainault
·
Previous improvements to night bus
services that have been made in anticipation of the Night Tube are:
·
A 24-hour service introduced on bus
route 47 on all nights
·
The re-routeing of the N1 via Evelyn
St on all nights
·
A new service introduced on the N199
on all nights
·
Re-routeing the night service of the
188 via Canada Water Bus Station on all nights
·
Re-routeing the N381 via Canada Water
Bus Station on all nights
·
The extension of the N133 (Liverpool
Street to Streatham) to Morden Station.
·
All-week, 24-hour services on the 222
(Hounslow to Uxbridge) and 238 (Stratford to Barking
·
Weekend-only, 24-hour services on the
132 (North Greenwich to Bexleyheath), 154 (West Croydon to Morden), 486 (North
Greenwich to Bexleyheath) and H37 (Hounslow to Richmond).
At least this is good news we’re
seeing.
Here you can find the timetables from London Bus Routes and Traveline South East.
Lastly, I want to wish the best of
luck to London Bus operators and London Underground for operating the Night
Tube.
You can follow me on Twitter and Google Plus which is @CLondoner92
Image Attribution
By Sunil060902 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8853070