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The Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway in East London connected the Royal Docks with the Great Eastern Railway. East London is the name commonly given to the eastern part of London on the north side of the River Thames. ...
The Royal Docks comprise three docks in east London - the Royal Albert Dock, the Royal Victoria Dock and the King George V Dock. ...
The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed in 1862 as an amalgamation of the Eastern Counties Railway; and also with several other smaller railways: Norfolk, the Eastern Union, the Newmarket, the Harwich, the East Anglian Light and the East Suffolk; among others. ...
History
The EC&TJR opened in 1846, from Stratford to Canning Town, to transport coal to the mouth of Bow Creek. A year later it was extended to North Woolwich via West Silvertown, allowing connections with the Woolwich Ferry; the same year it was taken over by the Eastern Counties Railway. Stratford station is a London Underground and National Rail station at Stratford. ...
Canning Town station is a major intermodal transport interchange situated at Canning Town in East London. ...
Bow Creek is a two and a quarter mile long tidal estuary of the River Lee and is part of the Bow Back Rivers. ...
North Woolwich station is a railway station in London forming the eastern terminus of the main route of the North London Line. ...
The Woolwich Ferry is a service across the River Thames linking Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich with North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. ...
The Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) began operating on June 20 1839 with a train service from a temporary terminus at Mile End to Romford, and working to a gauge of five feet. ...
When the Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855 the line between Canning Town and North Woolwich had to be equipped with a swingbridge over the entrance to the dock, which slowed down journey times. In response, the line was rerouted north of the dock, and a station at Custom House opened. The south loop remained in service for local factories and was renamed the Silvertown Tramway. The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands. ...
A swing bridge is a bridge that has its primary structural support at or near to its center, about which it can then pivot horizontally. ...
Custom House station is a railway station situated in the Docklands area of east London. ...
Several branches were opened in due course; in 1874 a branch running north-east to Beckton (not the current site of Beckton DLR station) to serve the gasworks there; in 1880, as the Royal Albert Dock opened, an extension to Gallions opened, running due east along the north edge of the dock, all the way to the shore of the River Thames on the far side of the dock. Both of these branches left the main line at Custom House. At the same time, the line was connected to the line to Palace Gates (Wood Green) in North London, and regular services between North Woolwich and Palace Gates operated. Beckton railway station was a railway station in Beckton, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. ...
Beckton DLR station is the eastern terminus of one branch of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in the Docklands area of east London. ...
Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen. ...
The Royal Albert Dock is one of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands. ...
The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. ...
Palace Gates (Wood Green) is a closed railway station on the Palace Gates Line in Wood Green, north London. ...
Construction of the Royal Albert Dock also meant the line from Custom House to Silvertown was moved into a tunnel. Silvertown station is the penultimate station on the main branch of the North London Line, between Custom House station and North Woolwich railway station, in London. ...
Demise & redevelopment The lines to Beckton and Gallions closed after bomb damage during the Blitz and never reopened. The Palace Gates-North Woolwich line continued until 1963, when services were rerouted to Tottenham Hale, later terminating at Stratford. In 1979 the service was extended to run on the old North London Railway via Dalston Kingsland to Camden Road, and incorporated into what was then called the CrossTown LinkLine, today known as the North London Line. German bomber over the Surrey Docks, Southwark, London The Blitz was the bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941, during World War II. It was carried out by the Luftwaffe across the UK, but their attack was concentrated on London. ...
Tottenham Hale station opened on 15th September 1840 as Tottenham on the Northern & Eastern Railway line from Stratford to Broxbourne. ...
Originally called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway and opened between 1850 and 1852, the railway linked the docks at Blackwall to Camden Town. ...
Dalston Kingsland station serves the North London Line. ...
Camden Road railway station is on the North London Line, in Zone 2. ...
The North London Line is a railway line through northern London. ...
Part of the line between Custom House and Gallions was later redeveloped as the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway, while the Jubilee Line between Canning Town and Stratford also runs over the course of the EC&TJR. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a light-rail public transport metro for the redeveloped Docklands area of east London, England. ...
The Jubilee Line is a line on the London Underground, coloured silver grey on the Tube map. ...
With opening of the King George V branch of the DLR, the North London Line between Stratford and North Woolwich will close in 2006. The stretch between Canning Town and Stratford will be converted to become the Stratford International branch of the DLR, while the line between Custom House and North Woolwich will close permanently. King George V Station on the DLR King George V Station on the DLR King George V DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway which opened in December 2005. ...
Stratford International station is a railway station that has been built in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham in East London as part of the work on the second phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. ...
Stations Main line (opened 1846): Branch to Beckton (opened 1880, closed 1940): Stratford station is a London Underground and National Rail station at Stratford. ...
Stratford Market railway station was a railway station in Stratford, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. ...
Canning Town station is a major intermodal transport interchange situated at Canning Town in East London. ...
Tidal Basin railway station was a railway station near the Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. ...
Custom House station is a railway station situated in the Docklands area of east London. ...
Silvertown station is the penultimate station on the main branch of the North London Line, between Custom House station and North Woolwich railway station, in London. ...
North Woolwich station is a railway station in London forming the eastern terminus of the main route of the North London Line. ...
Branch to Gallions (opened 1874, closed 1940): Beckton railway station was a railway station in Beckton, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. ...
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