Westferry DLR station

West Ferry is a station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR ) in the London Borough London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 2 on the West Ferry Road in Limehouse district. East of the station, the route of the DLR branches on the one hand towards Poplar, on the other hand in the direction of West India Quay. In the vicinity is built by Nicholas Hawksmoor St Anne 's Church with the largest church clock in London.

The station was built on the surviving viaduct of the former running there London and Blackwall Railway ( L & BR), which from 1840 to 1926 reversed ( freight trains until the 1960s ). It is ( not identical to the present station at Limehouse ) between the former L & BR stations, West India Docks and Limehouse. The DLR started its operations on August 31, 1987.

The name of the station is ambiguous in some respects, because there has never been a Westferry (western ferry). At the southern end of the Isle of Dogs there was a run by ferrymen from Greenwich ferry. This could be achieved by two streets, on the one hand, the East Ferry Road and with the introduction of an additional horse ferry in 1812 Westferry Road. The DLR station was eventually named after the street.