Limehouse station

Limehouse is a railway station in the London Borough London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in Travelcard Zone 2 on the Commercial Road in Limehouse district and is served by both the Docklands Light Railway as well as the guidelines of the Society of c2c and Fenchurch Street. In the vicinity are the to a marina and residential area been converted into Limehouse Basin, Regent's Canal and the northern end of the Rotherhithe Tunnel. In 2011 there were 2.571 million passengers the station ( located on the DLR part no figures ).

The station was opened on August 3, 1840 by the London and Blackwall Railway ( L & BR) and said at the beginning Stepney. 1850 came the link to the Eastern Counties Railway at Bow, in 1854 served the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway the station. Later he was called Stepney Stepney Junction and East, while there was still further east is a train station with the name Limehouse. Passenger traffic on the L & BR- distance set east of the present station Limehouse on 3 May 1926 to the associated platform canceled ten years later. However, it was not until the 1960s freight. Mid-1980s was built on the L & BR Viaduct, the Docklands Light Railway still well preserved, which became operational on 31 August 1987.