Stratford High Street DLR station

Stratford High Street 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, near the intersection of Bridge Road and Stratford High Street in Stratford district.

The station was opened on 31 August 2011, together with the branch line between Stratford International and Canning Town. In parallel to the tracks of the DLR extend those of the Jubilee Line, which trains the absence of additional platforms here but not keep.

In the immediate vicinity there was more than one hundred years a railway station. The Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway opened in 1846 a railway between Stratford and Canning Town. On June 14, 1847 also took the intervening Stratford Station Bridge in operation. The station opened up an adjacent fruit and vegetable market hall and was on November 1, 1880 ( at the time the track was owned by the Great Eastern Railway ) renamed Stratford Market.

1892, the station was relocated in the double track extension of the line by a few tens of meters. In 1898 he was named the Stratford Market (West Ham), in 1923 the original name, Stratford Market. Due to the low traffic volumes and low distance to Stratford train station on 6 May 1957 it was closed by British Rail. The station building of red brick has been preserved; after it first vacancy few years, it was renovated in 1975 and is used commercially since then. It is since 2009 under local protection.