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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Arielle Domb

How much have tube fares risen over the years? A year-by-year guide

Tube fares rose again in March 2025 (Daniel Leal-Olivas/PA) - (PA Archive)

Londoners often have qualms with the Underground, whether that’s delayed trains, boiling hot carriages or the eye-watering cost of Tube fairs.

For the past 25 years, the price of taking the Tube has been rising, increasing most years since 2000. That’s amounted to an agonising reality, in which the Tube has become the most expensive train network in the entire world, according to research conducted by the Telegraph.

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