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Every TfL line, every London station, refreshed every minute. Free, no signup, no app. Plus written guides to fares, the Night Tube, accessibility and how to actually read the status board.
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mycommute.london is a free London journey planner. There's no sign-up and no app to install.
It covers the TfL network — Underground, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, buses, Trams and the IFS Cloud Cable Car — as well as National Rail services where they are included within the TfL network.
Enter a starting point and destination using a station, postcode or place name. The planner then gives you a choice of routes, taking account of the time you want to travel and current service information.
The planner uses TfL Open Data for routes, timetables and live service information. We don't store your journey searches and there are no accounts.
Live status answers is my line running? Our London journey planner answers the next question: what's the fastest way to get there right now? Type a start and end — a station name or a London postcode — and the planner returns several end-to-end options across the Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, buses, National Rail and walking, ranked by total journey time. You can choose to depart now, depart at a specific time, or arrive by a specific time.
Each route shows a full breakdown: which line to board, where to change, expected walk time at each interchange, and the live arrivals for the next train so you can see whether to run, walk, or wait. Active TfL disruption is folded straight into the routing — if a line is part-suspended or running severe delays right now, the planner re-routes you automatically rather than sending you down a dead end.
Results are grouped into three sections so you can pick the right journey for the right situation: Suggested for the fastest realistic option, Bus-only (if available) when you want to avoid the Tube for engineering work, comfort, or just preferring to see the city, and Wheelchair accessible (if available) for fully step-free routes from start to finish. Every journey can be overlaid on an interactive map so you can see exactly where you're going.
The page is organised in four layers:
TfL uses a small set of status words that cover a wide spread of real situations. The short version:
For the full breakdown with examples and what to do in each case, see our guide to what every Tube status means. For an overview of every line on the network at once, see the live TfL line status hub.
London's TfL rail network is one of the most complex in the world. It covers 11 Tube lines, the Elizabeth line, the London Overground (now six separately named lines), the DLR, London Trams and the IFS Cloud Cable Car — together about 400 stations and over 700 kilometres of track. Together they carry roughly 5 million passenger journeys on a typical weekday.
For a guide to each individual line — its history, branches, stations and quirks — pick one below:
Line guides
Practical guides
Every TfL line at a glance — Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, Trams and Cable Car, with status terminology.
"Good Service", "Minor Delays", "Severe Delays" — what TfL's words actually translate to.
How the Tube works for visitors and new Londoners — fares, platforms, etiquette.
The full list of step-free stations and what "step-free" actually covers.
How TfL fares work, the zone system, and what to use to pay.
Which lines run overnight, on which nights, and how to get home when they don't.
Line statuses on this page refresh every 60 seconds. Station departure boards refresh every 30 seconds. The underlying data comes from TfL Open Data, which itself updates continuously.
No. mycommute.london is an independent project. We use TfL's freely-published Open Data feed, which TfL makes available specifically so independent developers can build tools like this. We're not endorsed by or partnered with Transport for London, and we don't speak for them. For official information, always cross-check with tfl.gov.uk or the TfL Go app.
The famous Tube map is a schematic, designed by Harry Beck in 1931. Beck argued that what passengers actually need is to know how stations connect to each other, not how far apart they are above ground. Beck's design became one of the most influential pieces of information design of the 20th century and is now imitated by metros all over the world.
Five lines run a Night Tube on Friday and Saturday nights: Central, Jubilee, Northern (Charing Cross branch), Piccadilly (not Terminal 4) and Victoria. See our full Night Tube guide for the exact running hours and last/first train times.
The simplest is to tap a contactless bank card or a phone at the yellow readers on the gates. Apple Pay, Google Pay and most UK bank cards work directly — no ticket, no top-up, no signup. Fares are calculated automatically and daily and weekly caps apply. See our fares guide for the full detail on how the zone system and caps work.
Yes. Open any station's departure board and tap Set as home or Set as work. The next trains from that station then appear at the top of the homepage: your home station in the morning and your work station from 2pm, with a switch to flip between them. Tap a direction such as Northbound to show only the trains you take. Your choices are saved in your browser on this device only.
Yes — the page is designed mobile-first. There's no app to install. You can also save the page to your phone's home screen to launch it like an app (in iOS Safari: tap Share → Add to Home Screen; in Android Chrome: tap the menu → Add to Home Screen). Most pages remain readable offline once they've been loaded once.
All travel information comes from TfL Open Data, the official feed TfL publishes for third-party use. We don't store any of this data on our own servers — your browser queries TfL directly each time you load a page.
Yes — mycommute.london has a free London journey planner. It covers the Tube, Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, buses, National Rail and walking, with live TfL disruption warnings, step-free routing, depart-at and arrive-by time selection, and an interactive map. Enter a station or any London postcode to begin.
Most people interact with TfL data through fragmented tools: the TfL Go app for one thing, the BBC Travel page for another, station screens for departures, social media for incident updates. The information is good, but it's scattered, slow to load, and often gated behind splash screens and onboarding flows that get in the way of the simple question you actually want answered.
mycommute.london is built on the opposite principle. Open the page. See the network. See your station. Done. No logins, no walls, no banners begging you to install something. The site is supported by unobtrusive display advertising so that it can stay free for everyone, with no compromises to the experience.
If you have feedback, missing features, bugs, or just want to say hello — drop us a note at info@mycommute.london. Suggestions for stations, lines, guides and improvements are always welcome.