Canning Town Bus Station - Silvertown Way, London, UK
N 51° 30.830 E 000° 00.541
31U E 292471 N 5711208
Canning Town bus station stands alongside Canning Town station that is served by the underground and Dockland Light Railway (DLR).
Waymark Code: WMGNFE
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/24/2013
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The Transport
for London (TfL) website has a map showing bus
services operated from Canning Town.
Wikipedia tells about the transport interchange:
"Canning Town station is an
inter-modal transport interchange in east London, England. It is served by the
London Underground Jubilee line, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) and local
buses operated for London Buses. It is in Travelcard Zone 3. From 1846 to 1873
it was known as Barking Road station.
History:
Barking Road station was opened by the Eastern Counties and Thames
Junction Railway on the south side of Barking Road in the Parish of West Ham in
1846. It was moved to the north side of Barking Road (near Stephenson Street) in
1888. The booking hall was replaced in the 1960s, and survived until 28 May
1994. On 29 October 1995, a new North London Line station on the current site
was opened. Original DLR plans were that the Beckton line would run directly
east/west between Blackwall and Royal Victoria, and the substantial loop to
serve Canning Town was a late design change. The DLR station opened on 28 March
1994, but was closed between 6 June 1996 and 5 March 1998 for the construction
of the Jubilee line extension. The Jubilee line station opened on 14 May
1999. The North London Line platforms closed on 9 December 2006 as part of
the closure of the Stratford to North Woolwich section of the line. On 31 August
2011 these platforms re-opened on the new Stratford International branch of the
Docklands Light Railway.
On the station is a plaque
commemorating the Thames Iron Works, which stood on this site.
Design:
The interchange is above ground, but access is by an underground
concourse stretching the width of the site and connected to all platforms and
the bus station by escalators, stairs and lifts. To the west of the complex
there are two island platforms, one immediately above the other. The lower
(surface level) platforms are served by the Jubilee line and the upper platforms
by the DLR. Alongside and to the east of the Jubilee line platforms is an island
platform which was served by the North London Line until 9 December 2006 and was
reopened as a DLR station on 31 August 2011. Alongside this is the bus station,
which has an enclosed above-ground concourse with doors to the surrounding bus
bays.
The DLR branch to London City
Airport opened on 2 December 2005. This line diverges from the line to Beckton
1/4 mile south of the interchange, with trains from both branches serving the
current platforms. The first station along this route is West Silvertown. A
substantial change to the DLR junction south of the station opened on 1 June
2009, when the Beckton line was diverted onto a new flyover that crosses the
eastbound Woolwich line and the new Stratford line. As a result of these changes
trains to Woolwich and Beckton can depart from either DLR
platform.
Location and Transport
Links:
The interchange is on a north-south alignment,
constrained by Bow Creek immediately to the west, Silvertown Way to the east,
the A13 Canning Town Flyover, a major east-west road bridge crossing the Canning
Town Roundabout at the throat of the station to the north, and the River Thames
to the south.
Canning Town is served by the
following London Bus Routes:
5 Romford
69 Walthamstow
Central
115 Aldgate East Ham
147 Ilford
241
Stratford City
276 Newham General Hospital Stoke
Newington
300 East Ham
309 Bethnal Green
323 Mile
End
330 Wanstead Park
474 Manor Park
Canning Town is also served by the
following Night London Bus Routes:
N15 Regent Street
Romford
N550 Trafalgar Square
N551 Gallions Reach
Trafalgar Square"