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Fares on Crossrail's Elizabeth Line will match Tube prices across most of London, but Heathrow passengers will be charged a premium, it was announced today.

Travelling between the airport and zone 1 in central London at peak times will cost £12.10 - £7 more than the same journey on the Piccadilly line.

Passengers travelling between zone 2 and the airport will pay a Heathrow premium of £4.50 compared with the Tube.

Crossrail journeys everywhere else within zones 1-6 will cost the same as pay-as-you-go fares on the Tube.

The Heathrow to Paddington peak Crossrail fare of £10.20 is less than half the cost of the £27 standard fare on the 15-minute Heathrow Express shuttle, though the Crossrail journey will take about 10 minutes longer.

Peak fares apply between 630am-930am and 4pm-7pm. Crossrail services between Paddington and Heathrow will replace the Heathrow Connect trains, and be 10p or 20p cheaper, depending on the time of day.

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Mayor Sadiq Khan said: “I’m delighted to announce that the cost of travelling on the Elizabeth Line in zones 1-6 will be the same price as a similar journey on the Tube – fulfilling a key manifesto pledge to deliver truly world-class transport infrastructure which is also accessible and affordable for all Londoners.”

Crossrail, to be renamed the Elizabeth line when in opens under central London in December, will add 10 per cent capacity to the transport network and offer a quicker alternative to the overcrowded Central line.

Transport for London hopes it will boost revenues by more than £200 million a year but admits some Tube passengers will switch to the new line, which will eventually link Reading with Sheffield and Abbey Wood via two new tunnels under central London. There have been 44 million fewer journeys on the Tube in 2017/18, reducing TfL income £89 million below expectations.

Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery 9 show all Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery 1/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Yayoi Kusama, Digital rendering of Infinite Accumulation 2017 Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai and Victoria Miro, London/Venice 2/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Douglas Gordon, Revue 2018, L.E.D on infinity glass in white powder coated steel box, 40 x 100 x 19.5 cm Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger 3/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Simon Periton, Vicious Turquoise, 2006, Coloured paper and mylar, Site size: 69.0 x 50.0 cm Frame size: 77 x 58.7 x 3.8 cm 4/9 Chantal Joffe Study for 'A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel' I 2017 Collage on paper 50.5 x 35 cm Chantal Joffe, Study for 'A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel' I, 2017, Collage on paper, 50.5 x 35 cm Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice 5/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Spencer Finch, A Cloud Index, 2016, Pastel on paper, 20 individual sheets: 50 x 64.8 cm each. Overall: 100 x 648 cm Spencer Finch; Courtesy Lisson Gallery 6/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Michal Rovner, Artwork commission for Canary Wharf Station, Preliminary Sketch Michal Rovner Studio 7/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Darren Almond, Departure, 2017, Bronze, 4 parts: 20 x 94 cm each Courtesy White Cube 8/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Installation view of work by Richard White at the Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line. Whitechapel Gallery, Gallery 5, 13 March –6 May 2018 Stephen White 9/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Conrad Shawcross, Digital rendering of Manifold (Major Third 5:4), 2017 Conrad Shawcross Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice 1/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Yayoi Kusama, Digital rendering of Infinite Accumulation 2017 Yayoi Kusama. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai and Victoria Miro, London/Venice 2/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Douglas Gordon, Revue 2018, L.E.D on infinity glass in white powder coated steel box, 40 x 100 x 19.5 cm Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger 3/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Simon Periton, Vicious Turquoise, 2006, Coloured paper and mylar, Site size: 69.0 x 50.0 cm Frame size: 77 x 58.7 x 3.8 cm 4/9 Chantal Joffe Study for 'A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel' I 2017 Collage on paper 50.5 x 35 cm Chantal Joffe, Study for 'A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel' I, 2017, Collage on paper, 50.5 x 35 cm Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London / Venice 5/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Spencer Finch, A Cloud Index, 2016, Pastel on paper, 20 individual sheets: 50 x 64.8 cm each. Overall: 100 x 648 cm Spencer Finch; Courtesy Lisson Gallery 6/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Michal Rovner, Artwork commission for Canary Wharf Station, Preliminary Sketch Michal Rovner Studio 7/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Darren Almond, Departure, 2017, Bronze, 4 parts: 20 x 94 cm each Courtesy White Cube 8/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Installation view of work by Richard White at the Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line. Whitechapel Gallery, Gallery 5, 13 March –6 May 2018 Stephen White 9/9 Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line, Whitechapel Gallery (March 13 - May 6) Conrad Shawcross, Digital rendering of Manifold (Major Third 5:4), 2017 Conrad Shawcross Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice

The opening of the £14.8 billion line will mean Oyster and contactless fares will be accepted on rail services to and from Heathrow for the first time.

As with the Tube, children under 11 will travel for free. Londoners aged 60 and older will also travel free.

Daily fare capping means that someone arriving at Heathrow and using Crossrail to reach central London will pay only 40p more for the rest of their Tube and bus travel that day, as the daily Oyster or contactless charge will be limited to £12.50.

Heathrow Connect will switch to Crossrail on May 20, bringing the slightly cheaper fares and Oyster and contactless ticketing at the same time.

Transport for London commissioner Mike Brown said: “When Elizabeth line services through central London open in December, they will transform travel across London. The railway will provide many new direct journey options between Canary Wharf, central London and Heathrow Airport, and will cut journey times dramatically and ensure London remains a world-leading city.”

Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of business group London First, said: “London’s businesses have worked hard to support, and help pay for, the Elizabeth line and we’re counting the days until it opens its doors.”