These strikes are happening due to the new "Night Tube" plans and to move station staff out of ticket offices into the platforms. Several staff members from the Rail Maritime Union (RMT) and others such as ASLEF feel these proposals are not right and wish to go against these ideas. The strikes will take place between the 28th April 2014 at 20:00 and 30th April 2014 (Last trains). Also between the 5th May 2014 and 8th May 2014, another strike will be in place. 

Trains will also operate between 0700 and 2200, and some trains will have the last service running out of Central London well before this time, at around 2100 or just before 2100. So please do arrange any travels to take place earlier unless using a bus or any other mode of transport. The London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink and Riverboat services are not affected. 

Below are the closures listed:

London Underground District Line at Chiswick Park/ Chiswick, Business Park.
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Bakerloo Line: No service between Queen's Park and Harrow & Wealdstone, and operational areas with reduced frequencies. London Overground may run between London Euston and Watford Junction. Kensal Green station will be closed Several stations are closed though, read below.
Bakerloo Line Station Closures: Maida Vale, Kilburn Park, Edgware Road, Embankment, Piccadilly Circus, Regent's Park or Lambeth North stations on any day until the strike is over.

Central Line: No service between Leytonstone and White City. Services from White City will only be for West Ruislip, however depending on availability of staff and trains, Ealing Broadway services may run during the peak. A service from Leytonstone may be extended to Holborn, although this relies on availability of staff and trains.
Central Line Station Closures: Redbridge, Wanstead, Gants Hill stations will be closed.

Circle Line: Normal service to operate, although with reduced frequencies.
Circle Line Station Closures: Great Portland Street, Sloane Square, Gloucester Road, Temple, Blackfriars, Barbican, Cannon Street and Euston Square stations will be closed throughout the strike.

District Line: No services to Kensington (Olympia), Edgware Road and Richmond (From Turnham Green). Services will operate between Ealing Broadway and Tower Hill via Earl's Court and between Wimbledon to Barking via Earl's Court and Victoria. No C or S Stock trains are to operate (To anyone chasing these trains). Take the District Line to Acton Town to change for the Piccadilly Line for an every 20-30 minute service to Heathrow Terminal 1, 2 and 3 ONLY.
District Line Station Closures: Several stations WILL be closed. These are: Aldgate East, Blackfriars, Gloucester Road, Stepney Green, Temple, Sloane Square, Cannon Street stations. All of these will be closed to District Line services.

Hammersmith & City Line: No service. Please use the Circle Line for stations between Hammersmith and Liverpool Street/ Aldgate/ Tower Hill. If travelling stations Aldgate East - Barking, please use the Circle Line until Tower Hill, and then change

Hammersmith & City Line Station Closures: Barbican, Great Portland Street and Euston Square stations are to be closed throughout the strike.

Jubilee Line: No service between Wembley Park and Stanmore. Services outside this closure will operate every 5 minutes.
Jubilee Line Station Closures: Some stations will be closed, and are as followed: Bermondsey, Canada Water, Southwark, St John's Wood and Swiss Cottage will be closed throughout the strike.

Metropolitan Line: No service between Harrow-On-The-Hill and any westbound/ northbound destination (Chesham/ Amersham/ Watford/ Uxbridge). Also, all-stations services are to run between Baker Street/ Aldgate and Harrow-On-The-Hill. During the peak, depending on availability of staff and trains, some services might run to Uxbridge during the peak. 

Metropolitan Line Station Closures: The following stations are closed: Barbican, Euston Square and Great Portland Street stations will all be closed throughout the strike.

Northern Line: A normal service will operate everywhere on the Northern Line, although no service to and from Mill Hill East. Reduced frequencies throughout.
Northern Line Station Closures: The following stations are closed: Angel, Borough, Chalk Farm, Clapham North and Clapham South, Warren Street, Oval, Colliers Wood, Embankment, Goodge Street, Hampstead, Mornington Crescent, Leicester Square, Old Street, South Wimbledon, Mill Hill East and Tooting Bec stations will all be closed.

Piccadilly Line: No service between Acton Town and Arnos Grove, and no service between Acton Town and Uxbridge/ Rayners Lane. Reduced frequencies throughout and all trains will run to and from Heathrow Terminal 1,2,3 ONLY. Heathrow Terminals 4 and 5 station is closed. Use Heathrow Connect and Heathrow Express free shuttle services to get to Terminal 1, 2 and 3 to connect to and from Piccadilly Line. If you'd like to travel to Heathrow Terminal 4 and/ or Terminal 5, alight at Hatton Cross station, then take bus routes 482 or 490 to your desired destination. Note you will be in the Heathrow Free Travel Zone so you won't be charged at all for any journey made between Hatton Cross and Heathrow Termianl 4/ 5 (In that direction only, but please do check with TfL staff).
Piccadilly Line Station Closures: Southgate, Heathrow Terminal 4, Heathrow Terminal 5 and Hounslow West stations will be closed. 

London Underground Victoria Line 2009 11065, King's X St Pancras.
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Victoria Line: No service between Walthamstow Central and Seven Sisters, and between Victoria and Brixton. Please use bus route 2 between Victoria and Brixton for all stations. A slightly reduced service is to run in place during the strikes.
Victoria Line Station Closures: The only station in the operational area closed is Warren Street. If the service extends to Brixton from Victoria, trains will not stop at Pimlico or Vauxhall.

Waterloo & City Line: No service.
Waterloo & City Line Station Closures: Bank and Waterloo will be closed to the Waterloo & City Line throughout the strike.

However, extra bus, coach, riverbus, DLR, London Overground and taxi services are to operate. Please note the bus routes listed below may have internal spares inside the company, or single decker workings on single decker routes to be converted double deck instead, not just hired by external companies such as EnsignBus.

Bus routes 2, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 36, 38, 52, 69, 73, 83, 91, 94, 139, 140, 148, 155, 158, 182, 188, 190, 205, 211, 242, 257, 266, E3, U1, RV1, H11, H91, H98 and E2 will have extra buses in service.

Last updated: 1st May 2014, 06:50

NOTE: Please do note that some other stations not-listed may close last minute before the strike or during the strike. Any other information should be found at TfL's Website (Click Here). Increased services on selected routes have also been put in place.

The two-week consecutive conversion programme started today, route 10 becoming London United's third Borismaster route.

Keeping you up to date with what's on the rails too is our new aim. London Overground has been a successful project, since it's start in 2007. Ever since, it has been in the top 5 best rail operators in a survey carried out by Which? and has seen TfL buying out more and more lines. Here is the latest plans, explained in a brief post below, but will be explained in more detail in a post in May or June this year.

London Overground Class 378 226, seen at West Hampstead on a 4-car
service to Stratford.

There are plans for the existing lines. As you may know, the London Overground fleet at the moment consists of mainly 4-car Class 378 models. These 4-cars will be raised to 5 cars later this year or early next year due to the increasing capacity on all lines.

Also, an order for approximately 35 or slightly above trains will be placed soon as right now there is a bid for train manufacturers such as Alstom and Bombardier to make new electric trains on a new contract. 9 of these trains will be sent to the Gospel Oak - Barking Line to electrify the line and release the diesel multiple units (DMU) class 172s to be sold to other operators in the UK. These trains will still be maintained at Willesden Junction Railway Depot.

London Overground has already confirmed that it will take over 4 lines on the 31st May 2015, all of which are operated by Greater Anglia. 

3 of these services will operate out of Liverpool Street station, and will continue stations to Chesthunt via Seven Sisters, Enfield Town and Chingford calling at these stations below which will add an extra 25 stations, with 23 managed by TfL. The other two, Chesthunt and Liverpool Street will be managed still be Network Rail.

London Liverpool Street |||| and other National rail services

- Bethnal Green I

- Cambridge Heath

- London Fields

- Hackney Downs

Services to Chesthunt & Enfield Town:                                             Service to Chingford:

- Rectory Road                                                                                                                    - Clapton

- Stoke Newington                                      -St James' St Walthamstow (For Blackhorse Rd)II

 -Stamford Hill                                                                                          - Walthamstow Central |

- Seven Sisters I                                                                                                          - Wood Street

- Bruce Grove                                                                                                            - Highams Park
- White Hart Lane                                                                                                             - Chingford
- Silver Street                                                                                                           

- Edmonton Green                                                                                                         

Service to Enfield Town:                   Service to Chesthunt:

- Bush Hill Park                                   - Southbury

- Enfield Town                                     - Turkey Street
                                                                - Theobalds Grove

                                                                - Chesthunt

An interactive map, which will be updated over the course of the next few days is available here to show, it features a full map of all London Overground lines and stations, present and future. 

Thanks for reading this short post, we apologise for the lack of posts lately due to staff not being available to write up posts, or in this case, this map did take weeks to make. Stay safe!

Re-capping the latest news and giving out new news is what we do on the Bus News section of the blog. Sit back and enjoy our quality service that we provide on a monthly basis.

Abellio London:
- Route S4 has been gained with new single deck hybrids on the 15th November 2014. This route is currently with Quality Line. Rumours are this route may be operated out of Fulwell (TF) garage, despite it's long dead run.

Arriva London:

- All the Volvo B5L Hybrids for Brixton (HV) have entered service on routes 59 and 319. This has allowed some DLAs to be cascaded to other destinations.

- Route 159 was cut back to Marble Arch on Saturday 29th March 2014.

- Route 38 has been confirmed to be fully Borismaster operation on the 10th May 2014, thus allowing DWs to be moving about the garages. 

- There has been a huge re-shuffle in garages, due to the closure of Lea Valley (LV) garage as National Grid required the site from the 1st March 2014. The changes were as followed:

LF52 URJ is seen on route 34 towards Walthamstow Central.
©LondonBusBreh

Route 34 transferred to Palmers Green (AD) on all days of the week, along with it's vehicles. The route is now allocated DLAs and DLPs
Route 125 transferred from Palmers Green (AD) to Edmonton (EC) Monday-Saturdays, and is now allocated DLAs with the occasional VLA. Although will continue to use on a Sunday, DLPs and Ts.
Route 184 transferred from Wood Green (WN) to Edmonton (EC), except the double decker school journey which remains at Wood Green (WN) and now ENS type vehicles have been spotted.
Route 382 transferred from Wood Green (WN) to Edmonton (EC) and is still allocated the 8.9m Dennis Darts. However, the first ever bus to not be a Dart ever on route 382 did come out as EN17 (GN57BPK) which is allocated to route 318 who transferred here to Edmonton.
Route 123 has transferred from Tottenham (AR) to Edmonton (EC) with it's VLAs, although still runs out of Tottenham on Sundays with DWs. 
Route 341 transferred to Tottenham (AR) from Lea Valley (LV) with it's Ts, which some have been spotted on the 149.
Route W6 transferred here with it's Pointer Darts which are 9.3m of length, not 8.9m like the examples on route 382 which none of have been intermixed.
Routes 397 and W11 transferred here too, both with their ENS type Enviro 200s, of 9.6m. Some have already made it onto 184, without blinds, but with 'Proper destination and information display, just not in the correct place'. 
Route 444, well known for it's unreliable and unhealthy Wright Cadets and poor service, has transferred to Edmonton, still using the Wright Cadets (DWL).
School routes 629 and 657 have transferred to Edmonton too, but with DLAs.
Route W3 transferred to Wood Green (WN) garage from Lea Valley (LV) with it's 61' reg Ts.


Transdev:
- RATP Group has bought out London Sorveign. A date shall be confirmed soon but operations should be bought out later this year. All vehicles will be strickered up with logos and most will not require new fleetnumbers. However, the 10.2m Enviro 200 Darts (DE) at Edgware (BT) and Harrow (SO) that are 11' plated will be renumbered DE129-171 to incorporate into the system. The new 10.8m E200 for route H13 later this year will be then numbered as DLE26.

London United RATP Group:
- London Sorveign has been acquired by this company, and now remains for the date of transfer. 

- Four Optare Metrocities which are electric are to operate out of Hounslow (AV) on route H98, to help with capacity reasons too. These have already been delivered to the garage itself via Hounslow Heath (HH) for driver training purposes and engineering training.

- The Metrocity for the 391 has once more been delayed.

Stagecoach London:
- The introduction of the Enviro 400 hybrids at Catford (TL) has been extremely slow, only two buses 12268 SN14 TWE entered on April Fools, and today 12266 SN14 TWC.

- The Wright Gemini's are starting to be delivered, with some registered as 'BU14 EFW/X/Y/X/Z, and the fleetnumbers 13001-31. These will be of the Wright Gemini 3 type, as if I am correct, the Gemini 2 is possibly no longer in production. Please correct this statement if this is incorrect.

Metrobus:
- It has been confirmed the Scania Olympuses on route 54 and 75 will flee off to Blue Triangles' Rainham (BE) depot, for use on routes 498, and all other school routes.

Metroline Travel:
- Routes 79 and 297 have both been confirmed to convert to fully Scania Olympus (SEL) operation in June. These will let out some 11' reg VWs and the 61reg VWs from route 79 go to Holloway (HT) for route 43. Note the 297 is already allocated four of these SEL-type vehicles. However, route 105 is to retain it's VWs. The night service of route 297 is still to be allocated purely VWs like it is now, due to residential complaints around the Neasden, South Pitshanger and Perivale areas about the noise the SELs do produce (Especially when idle!) and so Metroline and TfL have been keeping it VW since. 

 - The Gemini 3 (BF63 HDE) hasn't arrived yet, highly speculated for use on route 7 or 79. 

LK03 CFL/ TP415 on route E2 to Brentford, Commerce Road. With wrong
destination displays, at Greenford Broadway.
©LondonBuses72

- Only three TPs remain at Brentford (AH), which are TP411 (LK03 CFE), TP413 (LK03 CFG) and TP415 (LK03 CFL) which can be found on E-Line routes E2 and E8, although more common to see on the E2. As they are now just operational spares, they are usually in service on weekdays now, and are harder to catch on weekends, especially Simdays.

- There has been another VPL shuffle within Harrow Weald, Willesden and Edgware garages. The numbers of VPLs have decreased from 8 to 3. The only ones that remain at Edgware are LK51 XGG (VPL213), LK51 XGM (VPL217) and LK51 XGN (VPL218). Harrow Weald has received LK51 XGH (VPL214 and LK51 XGD (VPL205). Willesden have received Y203 NLK (VPL203) and Y143 NLK (VPL210) and LK51 XGR (VPL221), who though may have possibly been withdrawn.

Metroline TE720 on the 'Bright 5' as this shot is entitled, as opposed to 'Night 5'.
©Lewis JN

- The late journeys on N5, known as 'N5U' which run on Sunday Mornings until 1015 have been withdrawn since the 9th March, this date 2 weeks earlier than the scheduled one, 23rd March.

Quality Line:
- Route S4 has been lost to Abellio London.


Information correct to 03/04/2013, at 20:54.