Royal Victoria DLR station

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Royal Victoria Docklands Light Railway
Royal Victoria stn entrance.JPG
The station entrance in 2008
Royal Victoria is located in Greater London
Royal Victoria
Royal Victoria
Location of Royal Victoria in Greater London
LocationRoyal Victoria Dock, Canning Town
Local authorityLondon Borough of Newham
Managed byDocklands Light Railway
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone3
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2012Increase 3.732 million[2]
2013Increase 3.742 million[3]
2014Increase 3.992 million[3]
2015Increase 4.017 million[3]
2016Increase 4.279 million[4]
Railway companies
Original companyDocklands Light Railway
Key dates
28 March 1994Opened
Other information
WGS8451°30′33″N 0°01′07″E / 51.5092°N 0.0187°E / 51.5092; 0.0187Coordinates: 51°30′33″N 0°01′07″E / 51.5092°N 0.0187°E / 51.5092; 0.0187
Underground sign at Westminster.jpg London transport portal

Royal Victoria Station is on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Canning Town, east London. The station opened in 1994 and is named after the nearby Royal Victoria Dock. It is on the DLR's Beckton branch, in Travelcard Zone 3, and is the nearest station for the northern terminus of the Emirates Air Line cable car and for London's new City Hall.

History[]

The station is located on a stretch of line first opened in 1855, when the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was forced to divert its line to North Woolwich (the formerEastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway) around the newly opened Royal Victoria Dock. This line went on to become part of National Rail's North London Line, although there was never a station at the site until the coming of the Docklands Light Railway.[5]

When the Docklands Light Railway extension to Beckton was constructed in the 1990s, its tracks, between Canning Town and Custom House stations, were constructed on the same right of way but to the west and south side of the existing tracks. Royal Victoria station opened on the Docklands Light Railway tracks on 28 March 1994, whilst North London Line trains continued to pass without stopping on their tracks until that section of the line closed on 9 December 2006.

During 2009, as part of the Canning Town DLR flyover and the new DLR line from Canning Town to Stratford, an engineers' siding was added to the Victoria Dock Road side of the station.[6]

On 1 June 2009 the Beckton branch was diverted onto the new flyover, which crossed the Woolwich branch and the branch to Stratford International. The flyover was constructed as part of the 3-Car Capacity Enhancement Project to serve Canning Town high-level DLR station. (See main article Docklands Light Railway extension to Stratford International.) It is 330 metres long, and is formed from a number of different structures connected by a continuous reinforced concrete deck cast in situ. In addition, it allows DLR services from Canning Town towards Woolwich and Beckton to depart from any eastbound DLR platform.[7]

Connections[]

London Buses routes 147, 241 and night route N551 serve the station.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ Transport for London (12 February 2013). "Freedom of Information DLR usage 1213". Transport for London. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Up-to-date DLR entry/exit statistics for each station" (XLSX). What Do They Know. Transport for London. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Passenger Numbers - Docklands Light Railway Limited" (XLSX (after downloading zip)). What Do They Know. Transport for London. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  5. ^ "A short history of the North Woolwich branch". urban75.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Crossrail Begins to Get Visible (Part 2)". London Reconnections. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Transport For London Journey Planner". Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Buses from Royal Victoria" (PDF). TfL. October 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

External links[]

Preceding station   DLR no-text roundel.svg DLR   Following station
towards Bank or Tower Gateway
Docklands Light Railway
Custom House for Excel
towards Beckton
  Out of system interchange  
  BSicon AETRAM.svg Emirates Air Line  
Emirates Greenwich Peninsula   Emirates Air Line   Terminus
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