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As of 23 December 2007, the entirety of the East London Line has been closed in order to allow for its extension north through Tower Hamlets and Hackney to Highbury and Islington, and south through Lewisham and Bromley to West Croydon; work is due to be completed by 2010. Following completion of the extension, the line will no longer form part of the London Underground, but instead will be considered part of the London Overground.

Replacement bus services will run for most parts of the line. The exceptions are Rotherhithe to Wapping and Rotherhithe to Canada Water - the former because it's not really feasible to send buses through the Rotherhithe Tunnel (although apparently TfL considered running a riverbus service) and the latter because the stations are only a few minutes' walk from each other (although a bus replacement service was initially set up, it only lasted two months).

Interestingly, although you do need to have an Oyster card to use these buses, the fee charged is 0p - in other words, travel on the ELL replacement buses is actually free (source: Mizter T on uk.transport.london, January 2008).

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