District line
delay refunds
Was your District line journey delayed by 15 minutes or more? You are owed a full refund from TfL. Reeclaim finds every eligible delay on your contactless card and submits the claim in one tap.
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Line facts
- Delay threshold
- 15 min
- Stations
- 60
- Length
- 64 km
- Opened
- 1868
Runs between
Upminster ↔ Richmond / Ealing Broadway / Wimbledon / Edgware Road
Rolling stock
S7 Stock shared across the sub-surface network
Why you are probably owed money
District line delays add up faster than you think.
The District line is one of the longest on the London Underground with 60 stations and multiple western branches reaching Richmond, Ealing Broadway, Wimbledon and Edgware Road. That length, combined with shared sub-surface track, makes it one of the more delay-prone lines on the network.
Any District line journey delayed 15 minutes or more is eligible for a full TfL refund. Claims must be submitted within 28 days and the money goes straight back to the card you tapped with.
Typical claimable delays
What usually qualifies on the District line
Any delay of 15 minutes or more qualifies, unless the cause was planned engineering, a strike, severe weather, a security alert or a customer incident. Here are the sorts of issues we see most often on the District line:
Points failures at Earl's Court, where multiple branches converge
Signal failures in the central section between Westminster and Tower Hill
Delays propagating from the shared Piccadilly line section through west London
Overruns during Putney Bridge and Wimbledon branch engineering (not claimable)
How to claim a District line refund
Three steps. Two minutes. Money back on your card.
- 1
Create your Reeclaim account
Just your email. We send a magic link, no new password to remember.
- 2
Connect your TfL account
Sign in with your TfL login and a one-time SMS code. That lets us see your contactless card journeys.
- 3
Approve claims in one tap
We find every eligible District line delay on your journey history and pre-fill the refund claim. You approve, we submit to TfL.
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Key District line stations
Where District line delays most often hit
- train
Earl's Court - multi-branch junction, common delay source
- train
Westminster - interchange with Jubilee and Circle, busy at peak
- train
Tower Hill - City-edge interchange, knock-on delays from mainline
- train
Victoria - mainline interchange with heavy peak loading
Frequently asked
District line refund questions
Any District line journey delayed 15 minutes or more, as long as the cause was not planned engineering, a strike, severe weather, a security alert or a customer incident.
Yes. The 15 minute threshold applies across the entire District line, including the Wimbledon, Ealing Broadway, Richmond and Edgware Road branches.
TfL refunds the full fare of the delayed journey, paid back to your contactless card within 5-10 working days.
28 days from the journey date. Reeclaim scans that window automatically once you connect your TfL account.
If the diversion caused your overall journey to run 15 minutes or more late, yes. Diversion is not one of TfL's exclusion categories.
More answers in our full FAQ.
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