Westferry (DLR)
Westferry is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets . It is in the Travelcard tariff zone 2 on Westferry Road in the Limehouse district . To the east of the station, the DLR route branches in the direction of Poplar on the one hand , and West India Quay on the other . Nearby is St Anne's Church, built by Nicholas Hawksmoor , with the tallest church clock in London.
The station was built on the preserved viaduct of the former London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR), which ran from 1840 to 1926 (freight trains until the 1960s). It is located between the former L&BR stations of West India Docks and Limehouse (not identical to today's Limehouse station ). The DLR started operations on August 31, 1987.
The station's name is ambiguous in some ways because there never was a Westferry (western ferry). At the southern end of the Isle of Dogs was a passenger ferry operated by ferrymen from Greenwich . This could be reached by two roads, on the one hand the East Ferry Road and with the introduction of an additional horse ferry in 1812 the Westferry Road . The DLR station was finally named after the street.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Docklands Light Railway. Clive's Underground Line Guides, accessed January 5, 2013 .
| Previous station | Transport for London | Next station |
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| Limehouse |
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Poplar or West India Quay |
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 34 " N , 0 ° 1 ′ 36.5" W.