06 November 2025

This holiday season there will be engineering works taking place resulting in reduced services, station closures and disruptions affecting transport across the capital.

As usual, there will be no National Rail services on Christmas Day and very limited services by a small number of train companies (e.g. Southern) on Boxing Day.

The only TfL services that will be running on Christmas Day will be taxi and private hire services, Santander Cycles, electric scooter rental trials (in some boroughs), coaches and Dial-a-Ride (for registered members only).

All the information below is subject to change so please check National Rail Enquiries and Transport for London before planning or making a journey.

National Rail

London Waterloo
No trains will run to or from Waterloo on 27 and 28 December 2025 and a very limited service to or from Waterloo until 2 January 2026. More details can be found on South Western Railway’s website.

London Liverpool Street to Stratford
There will be no trains running between Stratford and Liverpool Street between 27 December and New Year’s Day.

London Euston
Passengers looking to travel between London and Scotland are being advised to use LNER or Lumo services on the East Coast Main Line as Avanti West Coast’s trains in and out of London Euston will be disrupted by the part-closure of the West Coast Main Line from Christmas Eve and during the first two weeks of January.

Southeastern
No Southeastern services will run to or from London Victoria between Saturday 27 December and New Year’s Eve. Southeastern services also won’t run to or from London Charing Cross or London Waterloo East on New Year’s Day or Friday 2 January 2026.

Transport for London

Metropolitan line
On Boxing Day there will be no service from Rickmansworth to Amersham and Chesham.

Piccadilly line
There will be no service between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge from Sunday 20 December 2025 until Sunday 4 January 2026. There will also be no service between King’s Cross St Pancras and Cockfosters during Friday Night Tube on 2 January 2026 nor between Wood Green and Cockfosters on Saturday 3 January and Sunday 4 January (including during the Saturday Night Tube).

DLR
On Boxing Day, Saturday 3 until Sunday 4 January 2026 there will be no service between Tower Gateway and Shadwell.

Elizabeth line
There will be no service on Boxing Day. There will be a reduced service between West Drayton and Maidenhead from Saturday 27 until Monday 29 December and no service between Liverpool Street and Stratford from Saturday 27 December 2025 until Thursday 1 January 2026.

London Overground
There will be no service on the Liberty, Lioness, Suffragette and Weaver lines on Boxing Day. The Mildmay and Windrush lines will be running on Boxing Day and with closures at times over the Christmas period. From Saturday 27 December until Thursday 1 January 2026 there will be no service on the Weaver line between London Liverpool Street and London Fields as a result of the closure of Liverpool Street mainline station.

Night Tube
There will be no Night Tube or Night Overground services on Boxing Day.

Other information

  • The Congestion Charge will not operate from Christmas Day to Thursday 1 January 2026 (inclusive)
  • The Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) will not operate on Christmas Day
  • The Low Emission Zone (LEZ) operates every day of the year (including Christmas Day)
  • Blackwall and Silvertown tunnels charges will not apply on Christmas Day