London Overground and the 24hr 'Night Tube'

But Shoreditch (and Dalston & Clapham to a lesser extent) nightlife is booming. It's where all the kool kidz are going! There was a bit of a hoo-haa about Old Street and it's branch being omitted for serving that area. But also, the Overground line would provide useful interchanges with the Jubilee, Northern and Victoria lines.

But I take your point about ATOs, but that can't be the main obstacle can it?

Outside of the core section, Network Rail would require access to the sections south of New Cross Gate and where the ELL meets the SLL north of Queens Road Peckham.

However, there is an improvement to the overnight New Years Eve service on the ELL with 6tph between Highbury and Islington and Sydenham with 2tph on the Crystal Palace branch for the first time alongside the 4tph on the West Croydon branch.

I'm sure in the future if a Fri/Sat 24 hour service can be arranged, it'll be those two ELL branches which operate on New Years Eve will be the first.

It would also take a lot of work with the unions to bring it in, would require recruiting a hell of a lot more drivers. In order for drivers to resume having breaks at Dalston instead of nearly all taking place at New Cross Gate, LOROL would have to recruit a lot more drivers, which they're not willing to do. It would mean a hell of a lot more to do 24 hour running, I just don't think they can justify the cost of the extra drivers for running a few more trains, not to mention paying NR for track access etc. It's completely different than the Tube's closed system.

Also I highly doubt the union would be up for it, nor the drivers. We have given up a lot over the last few years, putting Sundays in to the working week, taking away bank holidays etc that we now have pretty much nothing to negotiate with for any future negotiations. You can be sure that 24 hour working and also not running on Boxing Day are our only things we have to hold on to.

I think he meant the Piccadilly

ELL only, thank goodness...