Westferry DLR Station - Westferry Road, London, UK
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Westferry DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway, in the Limehouse district of east London. The station is located in Travelcard Zone 2.
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Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
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Wikipedia
tells us about the DLR system:
"The Docklands Light Railway (the
DLR) is an automated light metro or light rail system opened in 1987 to serve
the redeveloped Docklands area of London. It reaches north to Stratford, south
to Lewisham, west to Tower Gateway and Bank in the City of London financial
district, and east to Beckton, London City Airport and Woolwich
Arsenal.
The system is not entirely
unmanned: it uses minimal staffing on board trains and at major interchange
stations; the 4 sub-surface stations are staffed to comply with underground
station requirements. Similar proposals have been made for the adjacent system,
the Tube.
The DLR is operated under a
concession awarded by Transport for London to Serco Docklands, part of the Serco
Group. The system is owned by Docklands Light Rail Limited, part of the
London Rail division of Transport for London. In 2011 the DLR carried over 86
million passengers. It has been extended several times and further extensions
are being planned."
Wikipedia tells us:
"Westferry DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light
Railway (DLR), in the Limehouse district of east London.
The station is located in Travelcard Zone 2.
To
the
west is Limehouse station, whilst to the east the DLR splits, with one branch
going to Poplar station and the other to West
India Quay station.
The DLR station was built midway between the site of the old
Limehouse and West India Docks stations on the disused London
and Blackwall Railway. Limehouse Police Station is nearby,
as
is
St Anne's Church, built by Nicholas Hawksmoor and boasting London's tallest church clock tower.
The station is also close to Westferry Circus and
Canary Wharf Pier.
Westferry station is in Limehouse and given its proximity to
the former Limehouse station on the London & Blackwall Railway, could have
been given this name, but
instead Stepney East was renamed Limehouse and the
DLR
station
there given that name. West India Quay was reserved for the station at the
other end of West India Dock, so there was
no obvious choice.
There is no place called Westferry; the name is derived from
the nearby Westferry Road. Nor was there ever a west ferry. There was a
passenger ferry at the southern tip of The Isle of Dogs run by the Greenwich
watermen. It was accessed by two roads, East Ferry Road (also known locally as
Farm Road) and Westferry Road, built in 1812 when a horse ferry was introduced
alongside the passenger ferry. The two roads
still exist, running down the centre and west
side
of
the Isle of Dogs respectively. But the road names refer to an ancient service
at the far end of the Isle of Dogs
from the station.
Transport Links:
London Bus routes 135, 277, D3, D7 and
Night routes N550.
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