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London Underground and Docklands Light Railway use Transport for London's Travelcard zones to calculate fares, including fares on the Underground only. Travelcard Zone 1 is the most central, encompassing an area mainly bounded by the London Terminals and the Circle line, while Travelcard Zone 6 is the most outlying zone within the Greater London boundaries.
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.
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 ...
Services at peak times are less structured, and trains can run between any two terminus stations at irregular intervals (e.g. from Ealing Broadway to Epping). [104] As of January 2020, the typical off-peak service, in trains per hour (tph), is: [104] 9 tph between West Ruislip and Epping; 3 tph between Northolt and Loughton;
Another example journey where a pink reader reduces the fare for non-Zone 1 travel, is Willesden Junction to Wimbledon, where the default fare costs £3.40 peak and £2.90 off-peak, but a touch at West Brompton will reduce the fare to £2.10 peak and £1.90 off-peak, as it suggests that the journey is made wholly on TfL services instead of ...
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.
In some cases public transport operators do not publish public timetables for busy times of day, or they may simply state "services run every 3–5 minutes" (or words to that effect), which is the norm for buses in some cities such as Hong Kong even during off-peak hours.
Woolwich station TfL roundel. All services at Woolwich are operated by the Elizabeth line using Class 345 EMUs. The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is: [14] 8 tph to Abbey Wood; 4 tph to Maidenhead of which 2 continue to Reading; 4 tph to Heathrow Terminal 4