Abbey Road DLR station

Abbey Road is a station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR ) in the London Borough London Borough of Newham. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 3, on Abbey Road in the district of West Ham. It is named after the former Cistercian abbey of Stratford Long Thorne Abbey.

Immediately west of the station is the Stratford Market Depot, one of the two operating workshops on the Jubilee Line. Trains pass through this line of the London Underground, although Abbey Road on a parallel double-track route, do not hold the absence of additional platforms here, however.

The station was opened on 31 August 2011, together with the branch line between Stratford International and Canning Town. 1846 opened the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway between the stations at Stratford and Canning Town; to its temporary closure in 1973 it was at the Abbey Road never a railway station. Also the 1979-2006 circulating on this four-lane section of North London Line drove through without stopping.

Soon after its opening, the station made ​​international headlines. It attracts many tourists who are the erroneous assumption that in the vicinity befänden the famous Abbey Road Studios where the Beatles recorded the eponymous album Abbey Road. The same road with the famous pedestrian crossing is, however, about 15 kilometers away in St. John 's Wood Underground Station.