Canary Wharf
Location
Place	Canary Wharf
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Operations
Managed by	London Underground
Platforms in use	2
Transport for London
Zone	2
Annual entry/exit	34.210 million †
History
Key dates	Opened 1999
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground | National Rail
† Data from Transport for London [1]
London Transport Portal

Canary Wharf tube station is a London Underground station on the Jubilee Line, between Canada Water and North Greenwich. It is in Travelcard Zone 2 and was opened by Ken Livingstone setting an escalator in motion on 17 September 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. It is maintained by Tube Lines. Image File history File links Wheelchair. ... canary wharf tube station photo taken march 2003 copyright Richard Gallagher. ... One Canada Square seen from inside the adjacent shopping centre (2003) HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf is a large business development in London, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks... The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London borough to the east of the City of London and north of the River Thames in East London. ... The London Underground is an electric railway system that covers much of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ... Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most inward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Transport For London (TfL) is a local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system throughout Greater London in England. ... The southbound platform at Angel. ... This is a list of extant mainline railway stations in Greater London, excluding London Underground and Docklands Light Railway. ... Image File history File links Portal. ... The London Underground is an electric railway system that covers much of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ... The Jubilee Line is a line on the London Underground, coloured silver grey on the Tube map. ... Canada Water tube station is a London Underground station at Canada Water in Rotherhithe. ... North Greenwich tube station on the Jubilee Line opened in time for the Millennium celebrations at the end of 1999 - it is adjacent to the Millennium Dome at the northern end of an area sometimes referred to as the Greenwich peninsula. ... Travelcard Zone 2 is the second most inward zone of Transport for Londons zonal system used for calculating co-ordinated inter-modal Travelcard fares within London. ... Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is an English politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. ... Escalators at Canary Wharf, London. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Canary Wharf tube station The Jubilee Line Extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee Line into southern and eastern London. ... Under the 30-year PPP, Tube Lines is responsible for the maintenance, renewal and upgrade of the Underground infrastructure on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines, including track, trains, signals, civil work and stations. ...

History

Before the arrival of the Jubilee Line, London's Docklands had suffered from relatively poor public transport. Although the Docklands Light Railway station at Canary Wharf had been operating since 1987, by 1990 it was already obvious that the DLR's capacity would soon be reached. The Jubilee Line's routing through Canary Wharf was intended to relieve some of this pressure. The Millennium Dome and Canary Wharf from the Royal Victoria Dock. ... Canary Wharf DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in London, England. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ...

The tube station was intended from the start to be the showpiece of the Jubilee Line Extension, and its design was awarded in 1990 to the renowned architect Sir Norman Foster. It was constructed, by a Tarmac Construction / Bachy UK Joint Venture, in a drained arm of the former dock, using a simple "cut and cover" method to excavate an enormous pit 24 metres (78 feet) deep and 265 metres (869 feet) long. The resulting large volume of the interior has led to it being compared to a cathedral, and it has even been used to celebrate a wedding. However, the main reason for the station's enormous proportions was the great number of passengers predicted — as many as 50,000 daily. The restored Reichstag in Berlin, housing the German parliament. ... You may be looking for Carillon Carillion plc (LSE: CLLN) is a British based construction services business headquartered in Wolverhampton. ... A cathedral is a religious building for worship, specifically of a denomination with an episcopal hierarchy, such as the Roman Catholic, Anglican and some Lutheran churches, which serves as a bishops seat, and thus as the central church of a diocese. ...

The station today

Above ground, there is little sign of the vast interior: two curved glass canopies at the east and west ends of the station cover the entrances and refract daylight into the ticket hall below. A public park is located between the two canopies, above the station concourse. It had originally been intended that the infilled section of the dock would be reinstated above the station. However, this proved impractical because of technical difficulties and the park was created instead.

As with the other below-ground stations on the Jubilee Line extension, both station platforms are equipped with platform edge doors. Platform Screen Doors full-height, Paris - Line 14 - St. ...

Canary Wharf station has increasingly become one of the busiest stations on the network, serving the ever-expanding Canary Wharf business district. Although it shares a name with the Docklands Light Railway station at Canary Wharf, the two are not directly integrated (in fact, Heron Quays DLR station is nearer at street level). All three stations are connected underground via shopping malls. One Canada Square seen from inside the adjacent shopping centre (2003) HSBC Tower (left), One Canada Square (centre), Citigroup Centre (right) Canary Wharf is a large business development in London, located on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, centred on the old West India Docks... London Transport Portal The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light rail system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, England. ... Canary Wharf DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in London, England. ... Categories: Docklands Light Railway stations | London Underground stubs ...

Canary Wharf is also a double terminus, meaning that trains from Stratford and Stanmore can terminate at Canary Wharf. A train terminating at Canary Wharf from Stratford will go in to the westbound platform to let passengers change, then continue straight and cross onto the eastbound tracks using a set of points. The train will then reverse into the eastbound platform and form a service to Stratford.

Trains terminating at Canary Wharf from Stanmore will operate normally in to the eastbound platform to let passengers change, then reverse onto the westbound tracks using a set of points that cross over the points mentioned above, and resume a service from Canada Water. However, it is extremely rare to have train terminate at Canary Wharf.

Future proposals

Canary Wharf station and the Jubilee Line Extension itself were partly funded by the owners of the Canary Wharf complex, with the intention of making it more accessible to commuters. Only five years after the construction of the extension, capacity issues are already becoming apparent. It is envisaged that they will be resolved by adopting a new signalling system to allow trains to run more closely together, and thus more frequently. Trains have also been recently increased from six to seven carriages. In the longer term, the building of Crossrail line 1 will bring another rail connection to Canary Wharf and will also relieve pressure on the Jubilee line. For the similar scheme in Glasgow, see Glasgow Crossrail Crossrail is a project to build a new east-west railway connection under central London, with one connection to the west and two to the east. ...

Image gallery

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Ticket hall on the concourse of Canary Wharf station Canary Wharf underground station (Jubilee Line). ...	Interior of Canary Wharf Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 330 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo By Neil Jones (me) 31/10/2003 I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...	Canary Wharf tube station on busy day Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 3. ...	Canary Wharf station roundel on the platforms Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 756 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1312 × 1040 pixel, file size: 150 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) I took this image on my cameraphone when I went to London yesterday. ...
Canary Wharf platforms Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1632 × 1224 pixel, file size: 216 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Pic taken by me (BADUDOY) one day after work! I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this...

Local notable places

• One Canada Square, the tallest building in the UK
• Canary Wharf
• Citigroup Centre
• HSBC Tower

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External links

• Construction of the Station's Entrance Canopies

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Coordinates: 51°30′13″N, 0°01′07″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...