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 Blackwall DLR station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blackwall station is on the Beckton branch of the DLR between Poplar and East India stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.
The station is close to the northern entry to the Blackwall road tunnel under the Thames.
The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on the 28th March, 1994.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blackwall_DLR_station   (134 words)

  
 Poplar - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Poplar
Poplars and aspens are important food plants for the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera including Figure of Eighty and Clouded Border.
Like willows, many poplars have very strong and invasive root systems, so they must not be planted too close to houses or waterpipes as they will crack walls and pipes in their search for moisture.
Poplars of the cottonwood section are often wetlands or riparian trees.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Poplar.html   (286 words)

  
 Poplar, Montana - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Poplar, Montana
Poplar is located at 48°6'34" North, 105°11'42" West (48.109474, -105.194891).
Poplar is a city located in Roosevelt County, Montana.
Out of the total population, 32.6% of those under the age of 18 and 22.2% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Poplar-Montana.html   (427 words)

  
 Docklands Light Railway - Development Projects - London City Airport - Stations
The station is elevated and connected by stairs and lifts to a raised concourse connecting directly to street level and to the new footpaths through the park which leads down to the river front and views of the Thames Barrier.
Situated on the south side of North Woolwich Road, the station is elevated and connected by stairs and lifts to the ground level concourse.
Four new stations are being built with passive provision made for a potential future station at Thames Wharf.
developments.dlr.co.uk /extensions/lca/stations.shtml   (447 words)

  
 E/W INDIA & POPLAR
All Saints DLR station was formerly Poplar on the North London Railway of 1852 which served Blackwall Pier.
Neighbouring Meridian House was the Chaplin's House for the Poplar Chapel.
This was originally the Poplar Chapel planned in 1639 but not built until 1654 (during the Commonwealth).
www.london-footprints.co.uk /wkewindia.htm   (801 words)

  
 London Job Agency
Oyster Pre-Pay is also available on the DLR - passengers need to both touch in and touch out their Oyster cards on the readers at the entrance / exit to the platforms, or pass through the automatic gates at selected stations.1 Stations on west to east branches 5.
This was met by an extension of the DLR from Island Gardens in tunnel under the River Thames to Greenwich and then on a new elevated route paralleling Deptford Creek to an interchange at the major rail junction of Lewisham.
The current DLR fleet (at the end of 2004) is: 22–44: Bombardier B90, built 1991 45–91: Bombardier B92, built 1993–1995 92–99, 01–16: Bombardier B2K, built 2001–2002 All DLR cars carried a common livery of red, blue, and white upon delivery.
www.document-sugery.co.uk /London-Job-Agency.aspx   (8659 words)

  
 Transport Plans for the London Area - East
DLR proposed stations at Thames Wharf and Connaught
By December 1999, the Thames Wharf station (200 metres southwest of the eastern end of the Lower Lea Crossing) was described as an enhancement to be built at a later date: this is because development around the station is restricted by government safeguarding for the Blackwall Tunnel improvements.
An extra 3 stations might be built between Canning Town and Stratford (to be served by the DLR only, not by the adjacent Jubilee Line): one south of West Ham at Cody Road, and two north of West Ham at Abbey Road and Stratford Market.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/7069/tpftla_e.html   (9588 words)

  
 Railway Technology - Docklands Light Railway Extensions in London, United Kingdom
DLR Ltd is a holding company and part of the new Transport for London (TfL) organisation, while Serco Docklands holds the current operating and maintenance franchise for the system.
With DLR ridership expected to reach 60 million per year by 2005 and with passenger numbers increasing rapidly every month, DLR is to lengthen platforms to cope with trains formed of three units.
The Lewisham extension gives DLR a chance to take a share of the benefits of the regeneration of the area south of the River Thames, put into the international spotlight by the £700 million Millennium Dome tourist attraction.
www.railway-technology.com /projects/docklands   (1462 words)

  
 North London Railway
Today, the Docklands Light Railway follows the path of the North London Railway from Bow Church DLR Station to Poplar DLR Station, and the North London Line follows its route between Homerton and Camden Road.
The line from Dalston Junction to Poplar was heavily damaged during the blitz and passenger service from Broad Street to Poplar via Victoria Park and Bow was not reinstated at the end of the war.
The section from Broad Street to Dalston Junction railway station was closed on 30 June 1986
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/North-London-Railway.htm   (285 words)

  
 Beckton DLR Station articles and news from Start Learning Now
Beckton DLR station is the eastern terminus of the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in the Docklands area of east London.
The DLR branch from Poplar, LondonPoplar was opened in 1996.
A station known as Beckton existed on this earlier network and was closed in December 1940.
www.startlearningnow.com /articles/Beckton-DLR-station.htm   (131 words)

  
 Westferry Station - The Open Guide to London
The station straddles the join between the areas of Canary Wharf, Poplar and Limehouse.
Named after the Westferry Road, which runs south from the station, past Westferry Circus, down the western bank of the Isle of Dogs.
The journey time is 8 minutes to Bank Station, and 7 minutes to Tower Gateway Station.
london.openguides.org /index.cgi?Westferry_Station   (137 words)

  
 The Twentieth Century Society
The relics of this old hamlet, now a quiet backwater in the shadow of Canary Wharf, are embedded in a remarkably diverse range of C20 housing, from streamlined inter-war flats to the cosy terraces of the 1950s Lansbury Estate and the Smithsons’ overpowering Robin Hood Gardens hard by Blackwall tunnel.
The fortunes of Poplar rose and then fell as the docks expanded and declined.
c20society.org.uk /docs/events/052_poplar.html   (137 words)

  
 Docklands Light Railway - Stations - Bow Church
This station is close to Bow Magistrates Court and St. Clements Hospital.
This station connects with the District and the Hammersmith and City Lines at Bow Road (200m approx).
Download a local map of the area surrounding this station in PDF format.
www.jle.lul.co.uk /dlr/stations/bowchurch.shtml   (139 words)

  
 CULG - Docklands Light Railway
Poplar Depot is north of Poplar station; trains may enter eastbound from the station, and may leave either westbound into the station, or northbound towards All Saints.
The DLR have been kind enough to supply me with their official inter-station distances for the original sections, which really are given to a precision of 10mm.
Two stations (Beckton Park and Cyprus) are in the middle of road intersections, and the line runs in the middle of the road between them.
www.davros.org /rail/culg/dockland.html   (2706 words)

  
 Deptford - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Its railway station is one of the oldest suburban stations in the world, being built (c.1836-38) as part of the first suburban service (the London and Greenwich Railway), between London Bridge and Greenwich.
Close to Deptford Creek is a Victorian pumping station built in 1864, part of the massive London sewerage system designed by civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette.
Deptford is being gradually re-developed and is a ethnicly mixed neighbourhood of London with a lively street market and High Street.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Deptford   (687 words)

  
 Docklands Light Railway - Days Out On DLR - Where to Drink
Nearest DLR Station: Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich
A famous East End boozer next to the station in a distinctive building.
A favourite of the gangsters and glitterati in the 60's this pub is now more notable for its wonderful view over the river to Greenwich.
www.visitdocklands.co.uk /drink/index.asp   (426 words)

  
 Sagitta Property Management
A one bedroom apartment on the 3rd floor close to Poplar and Westferry DLR with fully fitted open plan kitchen, wooden flooring to living area, under floor heating and balcony.
A spacious brand new un/furnished two bedroom apartment on the third floor, close to Canary Wharf and South Quay DLR.
Within a short walk to South Quay DLR.
www.sagitta-tvl.com /property/tolet.php?council=Tower+Hamlets   (809 words)

  
 London Transport Central Area Routes 40–49
In 1993 it was again extended from Poplar to Blackwall DLR Station.
It continued to run on Saturdays and Sundays between Poplar (Blackwall Tunnel) and Camberwell Green, extended on Saturday afternoons to Herne Hill, and on Sundays to Norwood Junction.
In 1978 it was withdrawn between Poplar and East Ham, and between Herne Hill and Norwood Garage, but was extended during Monday to Friday peak hours from Poplar to North Woolwich via route 40A which was withdrawn.
www.angelfire.com /ult/eplate/040s.html   (1444 words)

  
 Westferry
DLR station on the eastern edge of Limehouse.
Westferry Road is the site of the recent Canary South residential development, which has included the conversion of a fire station to flats and the building of a new station further along the road.
West Ferry Road (as it was called until the 1920s) was created, together with its eastern counterpart, when local landowners and businessmen established the Poplar and Greenwich Ferry Roads Company to make turnpikes to the Greenwich ferry in 1812.
www.hidden-london.com /westferry.html   (248 words)

  
 Docklands Light Railway - Press Room - Latest News Details
The station will be fully integrated with the adjacent Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers’ buildings which are due to be completed in 2003 and the new retail mall, Jubilee Place currently under construction and due to open next year.
The old station will be fully demolished as the surrounding construction works are completed but in the meantime, passengers have sign-posted, safe access through the site.
The new fully enclosed station has 87m platforms in readiness for the proposed three-car running, and escalators and lifts from the ground level concourse.
pressroom.dlr.co.uk /archive_news/details.asp?id=49   (311 words)

  
 Leaside Regeneration, the sustainable regeneration company for East London
Leaside Regeneration is now working with the DLR (Docklands Light Railway) to project manage the design and development of a new £7m DLR station at Langdon Park in Poplar.
The new station will rapidly improve the social and economic fortunes of the Langdon Park area and will also form a crucial springboard for its long-term regeneration.
This project is the direct result of Leaside Regeneration’s 1999 vision plan for how to help improve access to and from the surrounding isolated communities.
www.leasideregeneration.com /detail.php?ItemID=241   (90 words)

  
 The Isle of Dogs route
It's the only DLR station where there's a platform on both sides of the train which makes it possible to walk from one platform to the other trough the train instead of down and up the stairs or escalators.
A short swim or a short trip on the DLR further south is the Canary Wharf station right next to the Canary Wharf Tower, one of the largest office buildings in Europe.
There is a pedestrian link to Poplar station that in some cases makes the journeytime from a Beckton-line station to a destination on the Isle of Dogs a little shorter.
www.xs4all.nl /~dodger/isledogs.htm   (299 words)

  
 Sudbury Regional Hospital . 1990s . 2005 . Canada . Mike Harris . Greater Sudbury, Ontario
The next stations on each line are Canary Wharf DLR station to Lewisham, Westferry DLR station Westferry to Tower GatewayBank and Poplar DLR station to Stratford.
It is situated at the point where the line from Lewisham station Lewisham splits into branches to Tower Gateway DLR station Tower GatewayBank and Monument stations Bank and Stratford DLR station Stratford.
West India Quay is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in London, England.
www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Sudbury_Regional_Hospital   (419 words)

  
 guide.html
Stations Limehouse (formerly Stepney East, BR Fenchurch Street/DLR), West Ferry, West India Quay, Heron Quays, Canary Wharf, South Quay, Crossharbour, Mudcute, Island Gardens, Poplar and All Saints (DLR).
Stations Aldgate East and Stepney Green (District), Whitechapel (District/East London), Tower Gateway and Shadwell (DLR), Shadwell, Wapping and Shoreditch (East London).
Stations - Mile End (Central/District), Bow Road and Bromley by Bow (District), Bow Church and Devons Road (DLR).
www.keith.emmerson.btinternet.co.uk /guide.html   (7601 words)

  
 The Gorge - London
Buildings at Canary Wharf, viewed from Poplar DLR station.
www.gorge.org /images/City   (127 words)

  
 Isle of Dogs
Tube and DLR stations on the Island are:
It was the site of the highest concentration of council housing in England, but now it is also known as the site of the Canary Wharf development built on Poplar Gut.
The area could be now considered an island since the West India Docks were developed, but the Isle of Dogs is generally considered to extend north of the docks, covering the whole peninsula.
www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Isle_of_Dogs&action=creativecommons   (679 words)

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