Canary Wharf DLR station

Canary Wharf is a station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR ) in the London Borough London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 in the middle of the extended business district Canary Wharf and is the busiest station of the entire DLR network.

Plant

The station is located adjacent to the building One Canada Square, the second highest skyscraper of Great Britain, and is integrated into a shopping center. The facility includes three tracks and three platforms, so that getting in and out can be done separately if required ( Spanish solution). It spans an elliptical glass roof.

West India Quay, the nearest station to the north is only just 199 meters away - the shortest distance between stations of a railway transport network in London. On the network plan to transfer to a same subway station on the Jubilee Line is noted. However, this can only be achieved with a longer walk through the mall or on the street. In fact, the Heron Quays DLR station is a bit closer to the subway station.

History

For the original project included the DLR Station Canary Wharf. But at the opening of the basic network in August 1987, the existing station in the shell initially remained closed. It consisted of two short side platforms, similar to Heron Quays. But soon it was clear to those responsible that the rapid, unforeseen in this scale development of the office district Canary Wharf would generate a demand that exceeds the capacity of a simply constructed station by far. Less than a month before operations commence construction consortium was awarded the GEC Mowlem commissioned to replace the station through the sprawling complex existing today. The opening finally took place in November 1991.