Agree that the ELL is more National Rail than tube line - although I thinks it's a bit too easy to be cynical as to where the new line will actually take you. Liverpool Street station and Broadgate IS precisely 5 minutes walk from the new Shoreditch High Street station - and one hell of a lot of people work in that north-east area of the city. ELL will make for easier access to the Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District Lines, so that's got to be worth something.

I, for one, was looking forward to getting back from the South Bank easily and quickly in the late evening via the Jubilee Line and avoiding the dreaded London Bridge. Looks like the infrequency of ELL trains after 10pm makes that far less of a good bet.

Not what I expected frankly. Perhaps I've been listening to too much guff from TfL.

There again, perhaps there's another way of looking at things.

Today we have 8 trains from London after 10pm. At the end of May we will have 19 trains from London after 10pm (10 ELL and 9 Southern).