This will mean journeys between the capital’s two key business districts and London’s main airport will take just 40-50 minutes, bringing the West End within 30 minutes of Heathrow.
It comes just a week after the opening of Bond Street Elizabeth Line station, which marked the completion of the latest new station on the new railway.
Services from Reading and Heathrow in the west will no longer terminate at Paddington, but will run through the new tunnels under central London to Liverpool Street, and vice versa from Sunday.
Similarly, services from Shenfield and other east London stations will no longer terminate at Liverpool Street, but will continue in tunnels to Paddington.
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Services from the south-east branch of the line at Abbey Wood will be able to go directly to Heathrow or Reading instead of terminating at Paddington at present.
The November 6 changes also mean the line will operate seven days a week. Since it opened on May 24, two-and-a-half years late and £4 billion over budget, there has been no regular Sunday service.
There have been more than 27 million trips on the central section, and more than 54 million trips in total.
Heathrow tickets will cost £10.80 off-peak and £11.50 off-peak, up to £7.30 more than the same Tube journey but less than half the price of the £25 Heathrow Express service .
The third and final stage of the line’s opening, to allow direct trains to run between Reading or Heathrow and Shenfield, will take place next May.
This will include end-to-end journeys, including from Shenfield to Heathrow, and up to 24 trains per hour during the peak between Paddington and Whitechapel.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the Elizabeth line is playing “a crucial role in our recovery from the pandemic” and providing a £42 billion boost to the UK economy, supporting hundreds of of thousands of new homes and jobs.