Blackwall DLR station
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Location of Blackwall in Greater London
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Location | Blackwall |
Local authority | Tower Hamlets |
Managed by | Docklands Light Railway |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Accessible | Yes [1] |
Fare zone | 2 |
DLR annual boardings and alightings | |
2007–08 | 1.312 million[2] |
2008–09 | 1.151 million[2] |
2010–11 | 1.532 million[3] |
Railway companies | |
Original company | Docklands Light Railway |
Key dates | |
28 March 1994 | Opened |
Other information | |
Lists of stations | |
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Blackwall is a station on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Blackwall 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 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 6 July 1840 to 3 May 1926. Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually farther 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.
A crossover west of the station allows trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse here.
Connections
London Buses routes 15, 277, D6, D7 and D8 abd night route N550 serve the station.
References
External links
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Preceding station | DLR | Following station | ||
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towards Bank or Tower Gateway
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Docklands Light Railway |
towards Beckton or Woolwich Arsenal
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