East India (DLR)
East India is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It is on the border of the Travelcard tariff zones 2 and 3, on Aspen Way in the Blackwall district . The name comes from the former East India Docks , where the merchant ships to and from the Indian subcontinent once anchored.
The station opened on March 28, 1994, along with the branch line towards Beckton . It should originally have been named Brunswick , after the nearby Brunswick Dock. The word is used today in the depots on the train destination indicator to indicate that a carriage has been cleaned. This ad also appeared as a fictional terminus in an episode of the ITV crime series The Bill in February 2001 .
During the heyday of the Docklands , a little southeast of today's East India station was the Blackwall station of the London and Blackwall Railway . This was opened on July 6, 1840 and was in operation until May 4, 1926. Nothing remains of the train station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 5, 2013 .
- ^ Station name: Poplar. Disused stations site record, April 20, 2010, accessed January 5, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '33.7 " N , 0 ° 0' 7.8" W.