London Underground

[cassa333]

Hi,

I have to get from Covent Garden to Morden on Monday night/Tuesday morning, leaving Covent Garden after midnight.

I’m confused about the night trains and underground tube trains though. Does the tube keep going all night?

My evening is supposed to finish by 11.45 pm but they can be notoriously late finishing so may actually go over into early am on the Tuesday.
If the underground is still going at that time of night it’s only about £2.80 but if I drive the car in it is the full congestion charge and the new emissions charge so a bloody fortune. So really want to avoid that lol.

[retrocop]

We live near the Morden Terminus on the Northern Line.The various lines normally run from 0500 to Midnight.Some run 24/7 on weekends.Try googling journey planner or tfl.

[Buenchico]

The Night Tube currently only runs on certain lines on Friday and Saturday evenings:
https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/tube-improvements/what-we-are-doing/night-tube

Your last Tube service on a Monday evening is at 0025:
http://www.upl.co/uploads/LateTube1556319281.jpg

The TfL journey planner is here:
https://tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/

[retrocop]

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=journey+planner+tfl&fr=yfp-t-s&fp=1&;toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

[Buenchico]

If you missed the last Tube service there's always the night bus.

Service N155 starts from Aldwych (Stop R, by Somerset House) and runs along the Strand, stopping at Savoy Street (Stop U, just after Waterloo Bridge), opposite Bedford Street (Stop J) and Charing Cross Station (Stop K).

It runs every 20 minutes throughout the night (leaving Aldwych at 15, 35 and 55 minutes past each hour) and takes 50 minutes for the journey to Morden Station.

[New Judge]

If you do decide to use the Northern Line DO NOT bother starting your journey at Covent Garden. It is a five minute walk from there to Leicester Square Station. Covent Garden to Leicester Square (Piccadilly Line) is the shortest stop on the London Underground (about 260 metres/280 yards). Access to the platforms at Covent Garden is by lift and it can usually take you a good five minutes to reach the platforms. Simply stroll along Long Acre and you will come to Leicester Square Station far quicker than you would reach the platform at Covent Garden.

[jno]

as NJ says, if you get on at Covent Garden you'll only have to change at Leicester Square anyway.

[Buenchico]

^^^ A good point, NJ.

When a Tube journey involves a sector between two stations which are only one stop apart it's often quicker to omit that sector altogether and just walk instead.

[Cloverjo]

As long as you know where you’re going. I can get lost in my own back garden, so I can easily get flummoxed if I have to leave a tube station and find another one.

[New Judge]

I used to enjoy commuting to London on tube strike days. I would find all sorts of lost souls either wandering the streets or on buses trying to complete their journeys without using the tube. I was once walking up Whitehall past Downing Street when one of the lost travellers stopped me to ask for directions. She had arrived at Kings Cross by main line train and usually went from there to Holborn by tube. She had been told to walk along Euston Road and turn left down Southampton Row. She had missed that (probably because she needed to look for Woburn Place which leads into Southampton Row) and instead had gone down Gower Street. Missing all the road signs to "Holborn" she had continued southwards down St Martin's Lane, across Trafalgar Square and was merrily heading for Parliament Square! Happy Days!

[Maydup]

Yep agree, even though its late, the streets will be busy and safe, so walk over the Leicester Square and take the northern line.