London travel disruption over Christmas and New Year 2025: full list of tube and train closures for December 24-January 2

The most wonderful time of the year is very nearly upon us. But you know what’s not so wonderful about the festive break? Trying to catch a train. Major stations get unbearably packed as people try to dash out of London in time for Christmas, and don’t even get us started on how busy the tube gets on New Year’s Eve. 

To add to the headache of Christmas travelling this year Liverpool Street Station is going to be shut from December 25 until January 1 for engineering work, which will have knock on effects on several tube lines, and part of the Piccadilly line will be closed for upgrades. 

Here’s a full roundup of London’s train closures, cancellations and service changes you should prepare for across Christmas and New Year. 

Full list of London tube and train closures for December 24 2025 - January 2 2026

Wednesday December 24 (Christmas Eve)

• Reduced service across the Underground after 8pm.
• No services on the Elizabeth line after 10.30pm. 
• Reduced service on the Lioness, Suffragette and Windrush lines after 7pm, on the Weaver line after 7.30pm and on the Mildmay line after 8pm. 
• Last Overground trains run from 9.15pm (Weaver line) and 9.30pm (Lioness, Mildmay, Suffragette, Windrush lines, Liberty line). 
• Anyone using the DLR should finish their journey by 10.30pm. 
• See all the last direct National Rail trains from London to the rest of the country here. 

Christmas Day 

• No TfL services are running on Christmas Day. 

Boxing Day 

• Reduced London Underground services start from 7am. 
• No night tube. 
• No Elizabeth line services. 
• No District line services to Kensington Olympia. 
• No Metropolitan line services between Rickmansworth and Amersham/Chesham. 
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. 
• No service on the Lioness, Suffragette, Weaver and Liberty lines. 
• Special Mildmay line service between Clapham Junction and Shepherd’s Bush but no service between Stratford and Richmond or Stratford and Shepherd’s Bush. 
• Special Windrush line service between Highbury & Islington and West Croydon but no service between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction, Surrey Quays and New Cross and Sydenham and Crystal Palace. 
• Special DLR service from 8am but no trains running between Tower Gateway and Shadwell. 

Saturday December 27

• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. 
• No Mildmay services between Camden Road and Richmond or Shepherd’s Bush. 
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields
• No Elizabeth line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford

Sunday December 28

• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. 
• No Mildmay services between Camden Road and Richmond or Shepherd’s Bush. 
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields.
• No Elizabeth line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.

Monday December 29

• No night tube 
• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. 
• No Windrush services between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction and no services between Sydenham and West Croydon after 10.15pm.
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields
• No Elizabeth line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.

Tuesday December 30

• No night tube 
• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. 
• No Windrush services between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction and no services between Sydenham and West Croydon after 10.15pm.
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields
• No Elizabeth line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.

New Year's Eve

• Tube services will run all night. 
• Some stations will be closed in the evening and reopened when TfL deem it safe to do so. The planned closures and times are: 
  
  • Blackfriars from 10.30pm
  • Charing Cross Tube station from 6pm
  • Covent Garden: exit only from 7pm
  • Embankment from 11pm
  • Lambeth North from 11.30pm
  • Leicester Square: exit-only from 10pm and closed from 11.30pm
  • Piccadilly Circus from 11.30pm
  • Russell Square: exit-only from 11.30pm
  • Temple from 11pm
  • Westminster from 9.30pm
• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge.
• No Mildmay services between Camden Road and Richmond or Shepherd’s Bush but special services between Clapham Junction and Shepherd's Bush and Willesden Junction and Stratford (via Queen's Park) running all night. 
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields
• Elizabeth line running all night but no services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.
• Windrush running all night between Highbury & Islington and Crystal Palace and West Croydon but no services between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction. 
• DLR running all night (every 15 minutes after 12.30am)

New Year's Day 

• Reduced Sunday service across the London Underground. 
• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge.
• No Waterloo and City line services.
• No Mildmay services between Camden Road and Richmond or Shepherd’s Bush.
• No Weaver line services between Liverpool Street and London Fields.
• Windrush services to Clapham Junction start at 7.30pm and to New Cross start at 8.13pm but no services between Sydenham and West Croydon at 11pm.
• No Elizabeth line services between Liverpool Street and Stratford.

Friday January 2

• No District line services to Kensington Olympia.
• No Piccadilly line services between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge or between King's Cross St Pancras and Cockfosters. 
• No Mildmay services between Camden Road and Richmond or Shepherd’s Bush.

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