Blackwall DLR station

London stations
name = Blackwall


manager = Docklands Light Railway
zone = 2
locale = Blackwall
borough = Tower Hamlets
start=1994
platforms= 2

Blackwall is a station on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in east London. The station is close to the northern entry to the Blackwall road tunnel under the Thames.

Blackwall station is on the Beckton branch of the DLR between Poplar and East India stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on the 28 March, 1994. There was a previous station on the same site, called Poplar station, which was served by the London and Blackwall Railway from July 6 1840 to May 3 1926. Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually further east. The location of these two stations on the London and Blackwall Railway can be seen in the bottom-right hand corner of the Map of Poplar, 1885, referred to under External links.

There is a crossover west of the station which allows trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse here.

External links

* [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/transportaccessibility/dlr/3269.aspx Docklands Light Railway website - Blackwall station page]
* [http://www.londonancestor.com/maps/bc-poplar-n.htm Map of Poplar, 1885] .

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