Bakerloo line: last trains, and why it has no Night Tube

The Bakerloo is a short line doing an unusually useful job. Between Elephant & Castle and Paddington it threads the exact strip of London people go out in, and then it carries on a long way north west into places most of those people never go.

Where it goes

Checked on tfl.gov.uk on 9 September 2026. The line runs Elephant & Castle to Harrow & Wealdstone. The central section, in order from the south, is Elephant & Castle, Lambeth North, Waterloo, Embankment, Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Regent’s Park, Baker Street, Marylebone, Edgware Road and Paddington, before it heads out through Queen’s Park and Stonebridge Park to Harrow.

Read that list again as an evening: Waterloo for the South Bank, Embankment and Charing Cross for the river and the theatres off the Strand, Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus for the West End. Six stops covering most of what this site writes about. It is the most useful eight minutes of railway in London and almost nobody thinks of it as a night out line.

But it stops

There is no Night Tube on the Bakerloo. TfL’s Night Tube runs on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly and Victoria lines, plus the Windrush on the Overground. The Bakerloo is not among them, and it never has been.

So the line that takes you into the West End will not take you out of it after about half past midnight. If your evening ends late and you were relying on the Bakerloo, you are walking to a different line or getting a bus.

What to use instead after midnight

From Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus you are already on Night Tube lines: the Piccadilly and the Victoria and the Central all run on Friday and Saturday. From Waterloo, the Jubilee and the Northern both do.

Every other night it is the night buses, which run all night and mostly pass through Trafalgar Square, a two minute walk from Charing Cross. Our Night Tube guide has the lines and the times, and after dark lists what is still open when you are deciding whether to stay out.

A note on the trains

Bakerloo trains are noticeably older than the rest of the network and it shows. That is a long-running funding question rather than a passing fault, and it is worth knowing only because a hot Bakerloo train in August is a genuinely unpleasant way to end an evening. Sitting near a door helps.

Things to do in London at night covers the evening by hour, and central London covers what is walkable between those Bakerloo stops without needing a train at all.