Woolwich Arsenal DLR Station - Woolwich New Road, Woolwich, London, UK
N 51° 29.417 E 000° 04.154
31U E 296543 N 5708421
Woolwich Arsenal DLR station is a terminal on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to the south of the Canning Town intersection.
Waymark Code: WMG1FR
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/01/2013
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The large majority of stations on the
DLR are above street level. This one, Woolwich Arsenal, is below street level
and that is due to the track passing beneath the River Thames just a few hundred
metres to the north. There is also a shortage of land so bringing the track to
the surface and constructing a station would have been impossible without major
changes to the town centre.
The Transport for London (TfL) archives [visit
link] tells us:
"On 12 January 2009 the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson,
officially opened the extension of the DLR from North Woolwich to Woolwich
Arsenal. Within this section you will find information about the background and
development of the project.
Construction:
DLRL awarded a 30 year concession to
design, build, finance and maintain the extension to Woolwich Arsenal to a joint
venture company formed by AMEC plc and the Royal Bank of Scotland, known as
Woolwich Arsenal Railway Enterprises (or WARE). This procurement was previously
used for the DLR extensions to Lewisham (1999) and London City Airport
(2005).Construction of the Woolwich Arsenal extension began in June 2005. A 540
tonne boring machine (nicknamed Carla) was used to tunnel under the Thames from
north of the river, breaking through on the south in July 2007. Carla removed
about 104,000 cubic metres of material - enough to fill around 1,100
double-decker buses.On the weekend of 25/26 October 2008 test trains began
operation between the new extension and the existing railway to allow changes to
the DLR's Automatic Train Control system to be comissioned. After successful
simulations the new Woolwich Arsenal station was opened for passenger use on 10
January 2009, over a month earlier than the scheduled contract
date.
Stations:
Woolwich Arsenal is DLR's 40th station to
be added to the network. It provides the following facilities to
passengers:
Interchange for Southeastern trains to London via a
footbridge from the upper concourse, and direct platform access for trains
towards Kent.
Escalators and step-free access to platforms via lifts
Staff
are present at all times and CCTV throughout the station
Coffee shop and
retail outlet
Public art by Michael Craig Martin.
Service patterns:
Trains operate at least every 10
minutes towards Bank.
Journey times from Woolwich Arsenal
station:
To
Bank: 31 minutes
Canary Wharf: 20
minutes
London City Airport: 6 minutes
Stratford*: 21
minutes
* Interchange at Canning Town Jubilee
Line."