Mudchute DLR station

Mudchute

Mudchute Location of Mudchute in Greater London
Location	Mudchute
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	3
Accessible	[1]
Fare zone	2
Original company	Docklands Light Railway
31 August 1987	Opened
9 March 1992	Closed temporarily
5 April 1992	Reopened
1999	Rebuilt and resited
2009	Third platform added
List of stations	Underground · National Rail
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Coordinates: 51°29′28″N 0°00′54″W / 51.4912°N 0.0150°W / 51.4912; -0.0150

Mudchute DLR station is a light rail station in London, on the Isle of Dogs near to Millwall Dock. It is on the Lewisham branch of the Docklands Light Railway and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The original station was on the route of the Millwall Extension Railway which was an old Victorian railway line that had been disused for many years. The original elevated station opened on 31 August 1987 and it was the last station before the terminus at Island Gardens. When the line was extended under the River Thames to Lewisham the station was rebuilt in a shallow cutting close to the tunnel entrance. The rebuilt station opened on 20 November 1999. In April 2008 work started on replacing the siding formed by the old route into a third platform for reversing trains and adding a canopy over the station.^[2] By October 2009 these works were complete.

The station was originally intended to be named Millwall Dock but around the time the DLR was being constructed Millwall F.C. had experienced some particularly nasty incidents of hooliganism, and a minority of its fans were considered to be amongst the most riotous in the country. Apart from any negative association the name may have given, local people were concerned that visiting fans in particular would travel to the station in error - not realising that the club's ground is some distance away on the other side of the river. Consequently the name Mudchute was suggested and subsequently agreed upon.

The name of the area refers to the engineering overspill when Millwall Dock was being created in the 1840s. Spoil from the excavation of the Dock and silt from its channels and waterways were dumped on nearby land, creating "The Mudchute", which quickly established itself as a wildlife habitat and adventuring location for local children.

Transports Links

London Bus routes 135.

References

1. ^ "Step free Tube Guide". Transport for London. December 2009. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/step-free-tube-guide-map.pdf. Retrieved 8 February 2010. 
2. ^ "Planning Application". http://194.201.98.213/WAM/findCaseFile.do?appNumber=PA/07/00072&action4=Search. 

External links

• Docklands Light Railway website - Mudchute station page

Preceding station		DLR		Following station
Crossharbour towards Bank, Tower Gateway or Stratford		Docklands Light Railway		Island Gardens towards Lewisham