Limehouse Railway Station

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Entrance to the train station

Limehouse is a train station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It is located in Travelcard Zone 2 on Commercial Road in the Limehouse district and is served by both the Docklands Light Railway and the c2c trains to and from Fenchurch Street . The Limehouse Basin , which has been converted into a marina and residential area , the Regent's Canal and the north end of the Rotherhithe Tunnel are nearby . In 2013, 3.248 million passengers used the station (no figures are available for the DLR part).

The station was opened on August 3, 1840 by the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) and was initially called Stepney . In 1850 the connection to the Eastern Counties Railway came at Bow , and from 1854 the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway also served the station. Later it was called Stepney Junction and Stepney East , while further east there was a train station called Limehouse . Passenger traffic on the L&BR line ceased on May 3, 1926 east of what is now Limehouse station, and the associated platform was demolished ten years later. However, there was still freight traffic until the 1960s. In the mid-1980s, the Docklands Light Railway was built on the still well-preserved L&BR viaduct, and began operating on August 31, 1987.

Web links

Commons : Limehouse Railway Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estimates of station usage. (Excel, 1.1 MB) Office of Rail Regulation, 2014, accessed on July 28, 2014 (English).
  2. ^ Station name: Stepney East. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  3. ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 5, 2013 .
Previous station Transport for London Next station
Shadwell Docklands Light Railway Westferry
Previous station National Rail Next train station
Fenchurch Street c2c
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway 		West Ham

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 45 "  N , 0 ° 2 ′ 23.1"  W.