Which lines are shut over the bank holiday

Most of the network runs normally over the August bank holiday. That is the honest headline, and it is also useless — because the closures that do exist are all in the places outer London actually travels through.

Two events are pulling the crowds in opposite directions this weekend: All Points East at Victoria Park in the east, and Notting Hill Carnival in the west. The engineering work is unrelated, and it lands on top.

The Northern line, above Archway

Friday 28 to Saturday 29 August: no service between Camden Town and High Barnet during the Friday Night Tube, for track work.

Saturday 29 to Monday 31 August: no service between Archway and High Barnet or Mill Hill East, including the Saturday Night Tube.

This is the shape of nearly every bank holiday closure, and it is worth naming: the line is not shut, its top is. Barnet, Finchley and Mill Hill lose their railway for three days while the section through the middle of town runs a normal service and gets described in the headline as «running».

South of the river, on buses

Windrush line, Saturday 29 to Monday 31 August: no service between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction for Network Rail maintenance. Rail replacement buses run Canada Water to Clapham Junction — note that the buses start one stop further north than the closure does.

Weaver line, Monday 31 August to Thursday 3 September: no service between Hackney Downs and Enfield Town or Cheshunt after 10.45pm, again for Network Rail. This one runs into the working week, and it is the late-evening trains, which are the ones people notice.

DLR, Sunday 30 to Monday 31 August: no service between Tower Gateway and Shadwell.

London Trams: no service between Reeves Corner and East Croydon until Sunday 30 August, and between Arena and Elmers End before 8am and after 6.45pm on the Saturday, then all day Sunday.

The one that outlasts the weekend

Barons Court: westbound District and Piccadilly trains will not call there until November, for planned maintenance.

That is a station losing half its service for roughly three months, which is a far bigger deal than any of the weekend closures above and is the sort of thing that appears once in a list and then never again.

Carnival, in the west

TfL is asking people to travel to Paddington and walk the last twenty minutes, because the stations nearer the route will be queued out or shut.

Ladbroke Grove is closed all day. Westbourne Park: no entry from 11am. Notting Hill Gate: no entry 11am–6pm, with District and Circle trains not stopping. Holland Park: no entry 11am–3pm, station shut from 3pm. Queensway: no entry 11am–6pm, exit only. Royal Oak: no entry 11am–6pm, shut at 6pm. Latimer Road may close for short periods and shuts at 11pm. Shepherd’s Bush loses its ticket facilities and down escalator after 4pm — platform access is via 71 steps. Queues are expected outside Kensal Green all day, and Kensal Rise closes its Chamberlayne Road entrance at 6pm.

Buses are diverted away from the whole area: daytime routes 7, 18, 23, 27, 28, 31, 36, 52, 70, 228, 295, 302, 316 and 328, and night routes N7, N27, N28 and N31. Special limited-stop services run instead, including the 148X from Notting Hill Gate to Victoria between 10am and 5pm, and on to Vauxhall until 10pm.