Taking your bike on the London Underground

This page was last modified on 16 November 2009.
LU information content correct to November 2009.
No changes in the past 3 years except temporary 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:

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

Bicycles may be taken on Underground lines —off-peak— as follows:

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, both in its Bicycle Tube Map (see [tube maps] page), and 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 the official (RGB, not “web-safe”) ones given in Transport for London’s Colour standard: see TfL’s [Design standards].