Star Lane DLR station

Star Lane 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 the corner of Star Lane and Manor Road in Canning Town district.

West of the DLR route runs parallel to a second double-track route of the Jubilee Line. Features of this line of London Underground not hold due to lack of additional platforms but at the Star Lane. The station is to promote the development and new use of the once largely abandoned industrial areas in the vicinity.

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

In summer 2012, during the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the station recorded above-average ridership. Set in a warehouse of a former glass factory in the immediate vicinity was the Uniform Distribution and Accreditation Centre, the central Accreditation and uniform transfer point for the more than 70,000 volunteers.