| | Docklands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many other wharves and quays are located along the lower Thames, though only a few (mostly in Greenwich) are still used for their original purpose. |
 | | The docks required an army of workers, chiefly lightermen (who carried loads between ships and quays aboard small barges called lighters) and quayside workers, who dealt with the goods once they were ashore. |
 | | Transport links have improved significantly, with the Isle of Dogs gaining a Tube connection via the Jubilee Line Extension (opened 1999) and the DLR being extended to Beckton, Lewisham and (opening in December 2005) London City Airport and North Woolwich. |
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