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Taking your bike on the London Underground

This page was last modified on 3 February 2013
LU information content correct to February 2013
No notable changes in the past 7 years except closure of the East London line.

Please note, this page is not associated with London Underground; all information is given in good faith and correct as far as possible at the dates shown above.

Unfolded bicycles may be taken free of charge on the London Underground, subject to the following restrictions:

They cannot travel during peak hours: 0730 to 0930 and 1600 to 1900, Monday to Friday (except public holidays).
They must not be taken on moving escalators.
They are not allowed on deep-tunnel sections of the system at any time, for safety reasons. See below for details.

Compact folding bikes such as Brompton, Birdy etc. are not subject to any of these restrictions when folded.

Permitted sections of Underground lines:

	Bicycles may be taken on Underground lines ‘off-peak’ on these sections
Circle line	Everywhere	These are the Sub-surface lines
District line	Everywhere
Hammersmith & City line	Everywhere
Metropolitan line	Everywhere
Bakerloo line	Queen’s Park – Harrow & Wealdstone (Within this section, bikes may also travel towards Harrow in the morning peak and towards Queen’s Park during the evening peak)	These are the Deep-level tube lines
Central line	White City – West Ruislip/Ealing Broadway Leyton – Epping Newbury Park – Hainault – Woodford
Jubilee line	Finchley Road – Stanmore Canning Town – Stratford
Northern line	Edgware – Colindale Hendon Central – Golders Green East Finchley – High Barnet/Mill Hill East
Piccadilly line	Barons Court – Hounslow West/Uxbridge Cockfosters – Oakwood
Victoria line	Nowhere
Waterloo & City line	Nowhere

Further information

Since I originally created this webpage, Transport for London has got its act together and nowadays produces a somewhat decent website. It carries the same information as here on its Cycling page.

I note however that their map fails to mention the Bakerloo line’s contra-peak-flow exception. Its mistake previously noted here relating the Jubilee line has been fixed.

The hexadecimal colour-values used on this webpage for the Underground lines are those given by TfL in its User Guide for the presentation of Service updates.

SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk Taking your bike on the London Underground

Unfolded bicycles may be taken free of charge on the London Underground, subject to the following restrictions:

Permitted sections of Underground lines:

Further information

SQUAREWHEELS.org.uk
Taking your bike on the London Underground