Custom House train station

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Custom House station

The Custom House station is a station of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and a future Crossrail -Bahnhof in the London borough of London Borough of Newham . It is located in Travel Zone 3 on Victoria Dock Road in the Custom House district. The name comes from the former customs house (Engl. Custom house ) on the north side of the Royal Victoria Dock . Immediately south of the train station, the ExCeL exhibition hall is located in the middle of a district with hotels, restaurants and bars. The south side of the harbor basin can be reached via the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge .

history

The Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway opened a station here on November 26, 1855 on the railway line, from which the North London Line later developed. On October 14, 1872, a line was added to the Beckton gasworks, which branched off immediately east of the station. This was initially only used by freight trains, from March 17, 1874 also by passenger trains that ran from Stratford . Finally, on August 3, 1880 , the St Katherine's and London Docks Company opened a branch line to Gallions. The station was located between residential areas in the north and a freight yard in the south. It was rebuilt in 1891 and had a station building on the north side and a pedestrian overpass.

The station was badly damaged in an air raid by the German Air Force ( The Blitz ) on September 7, 1940. The branch lines to Beckton and Gallions had also been badly damaged, so that passenger traffic had to be stopped. On the remaining route, the number of passengers fell sharply in the 1950s and 1960s due to the decline of the port. In 1969 the station building was demolished and replaced by a shelter. As part of the upgrading of the North London Line, British Rail electrified the route in 1985. The neighboring Docklands Light Railway station opened on March 28, 1994, along with the branch line towards Beckton . With the closure of the Stratford - North Woolwich section on December 9, 2006, the platform of the North London Line was closed.

future

The Crossrail project for the construction of an S-Bahn across London envisages the expansion of Custom House into a transfer hub. Trains on the branch line from Whitechapel to Abbey Wood will use part of the former route of the North London Line from December 2019, and a new station building is being built.

Web links

Commons : Custom House station  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Station name: Custom House. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed January 6, 2013 .
  2. ^ H. V Borley: Chronology of London Railways . Railway & Canal Historical Society, London 1982, ISBN 0-901461-33-4 .
  3. ^ J. E Connor: Branch lines around North Woolwich . Middleton Press, Midhurst 2001, ISBN 1-901706-65-6 , pp. VII .
  4. ^ J. E. Connor: Branch lines around North Woolwich. P. 58.
  5. ^ J. E. Connor: Branch lines around North Woolwich. P. 59.
  6. ^ Alan A. Jackson: London's local railways . Capital Transport, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-209-7 , pp. 445 .
  7. ^ J. E. Connor: Branch lines around North Woolwich. P. 63.
  8. ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  9. ^ Custom House. Crossrail, accessed January 6, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 34.7 "  N , 0 ° 1 ′ 34.4"  E