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Services were operated with 6 cars off-peak and 8 cars during peak hours until 1971, when trains were reformed as fixed 7-car trains, and some 6-car trains for the Edgware Road branch. [27] The CO/CP and R Stock were replaced in the late 1970s by new trains with unpainted aluminium bodies. [ 28 ]
The route was introduced in 1989 on a commercial basis by Metrobus and initially only had two return journeys per day Monday to Friday. It became a Transport for London route in 2002 and was subsequently improved, with frequency increasing to every 12 minutes at peak times and every 20 minutes on evenings and Sundays.
Design of the schedule may aim to make times memorable for passengers, through the use of clock-face scheduling — services departing at regular intervals, at the same times every hour. This is less likely to apply at peak times, when the priority is optimum utilisation of available vehicles and staff.
It is the only Underground line with an express service at peak times; the resulting longer distance between stations means trains can achieve the system's highest speeds of up to 62 miles per hour (100 km/h) on some sections. In 1863, the Metropolitan Railway was the world's first underground railway.
Transport for London acquired 20 new four-car Class 378 Bombardier Capitalstar electric multiple units to operate on the line. Unlike the dual-voltage 378s on the North London and West London lines, the East London line units can only receive power from the third rail electrification , although, like all modern EMUs, they have the potential to ...
TfL Rail took over operations from Abellio Greater Anglia on 31 May 2015. [17] TfL Rail subsequently introduced a fleet of new Class 345 trains. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] On 22 June 2017, Class 345 trains entered passenger service on the Shenfield branch.
In May 2021, Crossrail said that Woolwich station had recently entered the T-12 process, meaning that the station was considered to be 12 weeks away from handover to TfL. Reaching this milestone meant that work was now focused on testing and commissioning systems, and the contractor began demobilising staff across the site. [ 7 ]
In 2022, TfL noted that journey times from the area to the City and the West End have been cut by 50%, with an average journey time saving of 17 minutes. [102] Furthermore, TfL state that the extension will reduce overcrowding on local bus services and at Vauxhall station, as well as on the Victoria and Northern lines. [ 104 ]