Canary Wharf tube station
Canary Wharf is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 in the midst of the ever-growing skyscrapers district Canary Wharf in Docklands. In the year 2011 there were 46.59 million passengers these by the Jubilee Line station.
History
The official opening took place on 17 September 1999 by Mayor Ken Livingstone. Before the construction of the Jubilee Line extension to Stratford public transport connections to the Docklands were relatively poor. Although since 1987 the Canary Wharf station on the Docklands Light Railway is in operation, was already in 1990 become the planners realized that their capacity would be exhausted soon. With the Jubilee Line, the expected rapid increase in ridership should be managed.
The Canary Wharf Station and the extension of the Jubilee Line was partly funded by the owners of Canary Wharf. Just a few years after the opening of the new capacity is reached in the near future seems in sight. A new signal system that enables a smaller distance of trains, is to provide relief. Likewise, the trains were extended from six to seven cars. In the long term with the line 1 of Crossrail arise another rail link to Canary Wharf and relieve the Jubilee Line on.
In 2002 the station caused some scenes of the film 28 Days Later.
Plant
Although there is a same station on the Docklands Light Railway, this is not part of the metro station. The Heron Quays station is even closer. All three stations are connected underground by malls.
From the beginning, Canary Wharf was intended as a showpiece of the Jubilee Line extension and the renowned architect Norman Foster was awarded the contract for the development of the design. The station was built in a vacant former dock and pumped by means of open trench was 24 meters deep and 265 meters long pit. The large volume of the station is reminiscent of the size of a cathedral.
On the surface there are few signs of the huge interior. Two curved glass canopies at the east and west end of the station to span the inputs and let shine through the daylight in the distribution level. Is a publicly accessible park between the two canopies. It was originally planned to restock the area between the canopies with water. But this proved to be technically not feasible, so the park was created.
As in the other opened in 1999 tunnel stations of the Jubilee Line extension are also the platforms in Canary Wharf by platform screen doors separately from the tracks.