Commuters should see tube services into town boosted by the end of the year.

London Underground (LU) has revealed that from December an extra five District Line trains will run from Wimbledon to central London during morning peak hours.

The decision came after a consultation about changes to the heavily congested service, which also calls at Wimbledon Park and Southfields stations..

Commuter Thais Portillo-Shrimpton, who lives in Wimbledon Village, welcomed the news. She said: "I'm really happy - sometimes I have to stand [on the platform] for 15 minutes."

To pave the way for the change, LU will be scrapping the weekday shuttle service between Kensington Olympia and High Street Kensington.

LU claims the move will reduce delays and provide capacity for an additional 4,000 passengers every weekday morning, with further capacity for more than 800 people on evening services to Ealing Broadway and an enhanced late evening service on the Wimbledon branch - with six trains per hour until 11.30pm.

The Olympia shuttle service will continue to operate at weekends and special services will operate to serve major weekday events at the Olympia exhibition centre.