{"id":38059,"date":"2024-05-08T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=38059"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:15:10","slug":"the-piccadilly-line-will-close-later-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=38059","title":{"rendered":"The Piccadilly line will close later this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These days the tube doesn\u2019t seem like the old faithful it once was.&nbsp;Over the past months the Underground has been plagued by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/london-train-strikes-everything-you-need-to-know-021723\">strikes<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/this-northern-line-tube-station-will-close-for-six-months-later-this-year-020824\">station closures<\/a>, and what the heck is even going on with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/delays-on-the-central-line-will-last-for-months-012624\">Central line<\/a>? And now it\u2019s been announced that more tube strife is on the way, as the Piccadilly line is going to close later this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad news though.\u00a0We might be\u00a0saying goodbye to the Piccadilly for a short while, but it\u2019s only so the navy blue line can get some vital upgrades and new trains with&#8230; drumroll please&#8230; air conditioning. Finally! The Piccadilly makeover is costing\u00a0a grand total of \u00a32.9 billion, so we have high expectations for the grand reveal. You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/first-look-inside-the-piccadilly-lines-new-air-conditioned-walk-through-trains-112223\">get a sneak peek of the new trains and carriages here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An exact date for the line closures hasn\u2019t been confirmed yet. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said TfL is currently deciding when the service will shut. Khan told the London Assembly: \u2018In preparing for the new Piccadilly line trains there will be closures on the line for both infrastructure enhancements and testing the new trains. The dates of these closures are being agreed at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018An integrated customer communications plan is also being developed. Customers can sign up for email updates related to closures on the TfL website\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/news\/first-look-inside-the-piccadilly-lines-new-air-conditioned-walk-through-trains-112223\">Images<\/a>&nbsp;of the dark blue line\u2019s walk-through, driverless trains were first revealed in November 2023, but the trains themselves are not likely to come into service until 2025. TfL also plans to increase the number of trains on the line by 2027, meaning they will be more frequent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll keep you updated when we know more about when the Piccadilly line will be closing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time Out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The navy blue London Underground line is getting a \u00a32.9 billion makeover \u2013 including air-conditioned trains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":38060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3347,163,85],"tags":[8900,4554],"class_list":["post-38059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-underground","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-uk","tag-piccadilly-line","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38061,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions\/38061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}