Night Tube

I love the idea of night tube, and hope it serves people well, but at the moment 'Night Suburban Mainline Rail Services' would be more welcome for people who live in my neck of the woods. One step at a time!

Yes, currently in the middle of moving from Streatham to Croydon and whilst going to Brixton will be useful I am still relying on night buses!

Not yet. The Piccadilly Line doesn't become a Night Tube line until autumn: tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube

London Overground is getting night services by next year and the DLR by 2021. I'm surprised the DLR is taking that long to get night services as its driverless.

Or if you're, like me, a morning person? I think a 7.30pm start is just fine.

1) They're idiots who know nothing about life outside London.
2) They're idiots who know nothing.
3) They're desperate for retweets.
Take your pick.

New York subway is completely different to London.

London was the pioneer travel for tube travel, which is great but being pioneers we made many mistakes that other countries avoided. In New York case, they built their subway with 4 tracks, 2 up and 2 down, so at night you can close 2 of these racks down to carry out essential maintenance, whilst running a service on the other 2 tracks. In London you cannot do this. in New York there is no real tube tunnels, except under the rivers, it is all cut and cover, like the District, Metropolitian, Circle and Hammersmith and Circle over here.

Subway travel in New York is cheaper, but London Underground is cleaner, more frequent, we have better platform dot matrixinformation (it's getting better in New York, more escalators and the British bottom is far more delicate, than the American bottom and needs a more comfortable seat!!! The New York Subway has great air conditioning which London only has on the cut and cover lines listed above, it's not possible to have these on tube trains.

Northern, Piccadilly and Jubilee Lines will come online to provide a night service soon. In my opinion TFL should charge a premium for night services, how much would someone have to pay for a black cab before?

At least when you are in Croydon you will be able to get the hourly thameslink from St Pancras or Blackfriars to East Croydon...

Are Southern trains still such a mess, or is their service back to normal?

Maybe I omitted the final "bad" after normal?

Seriously, I'm only taking their trains between Victoria or London Bridge and East Croydon to get to and from my hotel and until this June, I could never complain. Plenty of trains during every hour of the day, but admittedly, I can take pretty much every train that stops at East Croydon and departs from Victoria and London Bridge and don't know how the service is for people living in the south of England.

But this June, there were lots of cancellations and the few trains that were running were jam-packed - apparently because of staff shortages. At least that's what the posters were saying. People in my trains were complaining loudly that that's been going on for quite a while.

In general I'd say no but maybe occasionally they could do late performances in addition to 1930 ones. I can only imagine how horrible that would be as a performer and you'd have an audience full of drunk people potentially.

Drunken Sing-Along Mamma Mia might be fun once a year. (Deep down I can't think of anything worse.)

I think for a 90 minute show, a 10pm show might work but shows are at 7.30pm for a reason.