London’s Weekend Only 24 Hour Bus Routes

You probably know that London has many night buses with the "N" prefix and also many 24 hour bus routes which run all day everyday (except Christmas Day). But like the night Tube a few bus routes run on Friday nights/Saturday mornings and Saturday nights/Sunday mornings as well as normally during the day. This means that there is no 24 hour service on weekday nights so these buses are given the 24 hour weekend badge on bus stops and diagrams.

Two Buses at Vauxhall station
Both routes with designated night routes

The Buses

According to TfL the 13 routes are 34, 114, 123, 145, 158, 183, 296, 307, 319, E1, H32, W3 and W7. Other sources suggest that the 132, 154, 486, and H37 are also on the list. But some of these night services have "temporarily" stopped due to the pandemic including the 145 with its night service being proposed to be withdrawn. With them running every 30 minutes except the W7 which runs every 20 minutes. These complement the existing night buses and 24 hour daily buses which run all day every day.

The Links to Night Tube

The weekend night service on these buses started in 2016 and purposely coincided with the start of Night Tube. Before the pandemic, the Night Tube used to run on Saturday and Sunday mornings on the Central, Jubilee, Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria lines. Specifically between Ealing Broadway, Loughton, and Hainault on the Central Line, on all the Northern Line except the Bank branch and Mill Hill East. On the Piccadilly Line it ran everywhere except the Uxbridge branch and on the entirety of the Jubilee and Victoria Lines.

Orion's belt in the sky
Orion's Belt

Why Only at Weekends

On weekday mornings there are no tube or rail services (except a mostly half hourly Thameslink service between Three Bridges and Bedford) so if you want to go somewhere in London (on public transport) you take the bus. Most designated night buses are routed from Central London to the outskirts of the city. The 24 hour daily services provide a service to more areas of the capital with this keeping the significant majority of residents quite close to a bus stop with 24 hour service. The weekend only 24 hour routes provide useful links from Night Tube stations to other areas which reduces journey times compared to if the service was not there.

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