It’s official – the Jubilee Line is now part of the night tube service here in London.

This is fantastic news for all users of the night tube, however we feel it will have particular resonance with those in the data centre industry. The Jubilee Line is a major arterial service for city-wide access to some of the most important London data centres, including Harbour Exchange / Equinix LD8, Global Switch and the Telehouse campus, amongst many other smaller facilities in and around the Docklands area.

More importantly, this now provides a 24-hour transport link between our London Central data centre in Bermondsey and the Docklands hub, which is perfect for users with services spanning multiple sites. No longer must engineers rely on slow and costly taxis to work on networks and systems which operate across the capital.

With our London Central data centre quickly becoming one of the city’s best alternatives to the now overcrowded, overstretched Docklands connectivity hub, this transport link will be a vital tool in speeding up out-of-hours engineering operations between sites.

At long last, the vital physical transport link that joins our private London data centre with our POPs in Docklands is finally coming to match the unrivaled dark fibre connectivity that links our facilities.

This extended nighttime service has been in operation from Friday October 7th, running on both Friday and Saturday evenings.

We held our first summer social this September, inviting a selection of colleagues, customers, stakeholders, and general friends of the business for an informal evening of drinks and food by the Thames.

The night was a great success, and an excellent excuse to see out the last of the summer sun, before London is once again thrust into a cycle of long nights and frosty mornings.

We’d love to have put up some photos from the event here, but we were having too much fun to take any!

We’ll be hosting more of these socials in the future, so keep your eyes peeled – Christmas will probably be an ideal time for the next one!

This weekend will see the night tube service take effect on London’s underground network for the first time. The London underground network was the first of its kind anywhere in the world, operating in some form since 1863. This will be the first time services have run throughout the night on this rapid transport network, which carries over 1.3 billion passengers each year.

The benefits to the public are obvious and far reaching, but perhaps more interestingly, this will bring about much improved access to data centres in the capital. The Jubilee line will join the nocturnal operation in Autumn 2016, following the first two lines – Central and Victoria – which begin their night service on Friday 19th August.

Our London Central data centre is easily accessible from Bermondsey underground station, which sits just one stop along from London Bridge. Once operating on the extended timetable, customers will be able to access the facility at any time – day or night – using the underground network. This will be welcome news to those needing to visit the data centre out-of-hours, who would usually have to rely on less effective transport methods after the line closes.

Additionally, clients with equipment in Telehouse and / or Harbour Exchange will also benefit from the new night service, as they can access Canary Wharf on the same line – just two stops on from Bermondsey.