Stratford High Street DLR Station - Bridge Road, London, UK
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Stratford High Street DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway station in the Stratford neighbourhood of the London Borough of Newham, in east London, England.
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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,[7] 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:
"Stratford High
Street DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway station in the Stratford neighbourhood of the
London Borough of Newham, in east London, England. It is located on
the Stratford International extension of the Docklands Light Railway, which opened
on
31
August 2011. The site was the location of an earlier railway station from 1847
to 1957, known initially as Stratford Bridge and later
as Stratford Market.
The first
station on the site was opened as Stratford Bridge on
14 June 1847 on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway between Stratford
and Canning Town stations. It served a local fruit and vegetable market and was
renamed Stratford Market on 1 November 1880. The station was resited in 1892 when the
line was widened. The second station was itself renamed twice: to Stratford
Market (West Ham) in 1898, resuming the name Stratford Market in
1923.
The
station closed on 6 May 1957 due to lack of traffic and the proximity
of the larger Stratford station, which was also served
by other lines.
The line through the station site to North Woolwich
closed in 2006 for works to start on conversion
to DLR operation.
The red brick station buildings from the
original station still stand on the south side of
Stratford High Street.
The station is located on
Stratford High Street. It is provided with footbridge connections to Bridge Road and Burford Road
in order to provide access to the surrounding areas. In order to
locate the station here Bridge Road has been permanently closed to
vehicles
except
for emergency access. This avoided the need to take land from Rokeby School whilst
also enabling the station to be located close to
Stratford High Street.
Off-peak, trains run every ten
minutes
to
between Stratford International to the North and Beckton to the South. In the peak
hours trains run every eight minutes between Stratford International
and Woolwich Arsenal.
"