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Blackwall is a
Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London, England and provides a direct connection between London's two major financial districts, Canary Wharf and the City of Lo ...
(DLR) station in Blackwall area of Poplar in
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, England. It is located very close to the northern entrance to the Blackwall road tunnel under the
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. The station is on the Beckton branch of the DLR between Poplar and
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stations. The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on 28 March 1994. There was a previous station very close to this site, called Poplar station, which was served by the
London and Blackwall Railway Originally called the Commercial Railway, the London and Blackwall Railway (L&BR) in east London, England, ran from Minories to Blackwall via Stepney, with a branch line to the Isle of Dogs, connecting central London to many of London's docks. ...
from 6 July 1840 to 3 May 1926. Poplar station was along the route of Aspen Way just to the south and east of the DLR station. Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually farther east, on what is today Jamestown Way. A crossover west of the station allows trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse here.


Connections

London Buses route 15 serves the station.


References


External links


Docklands Light Railway website – Blackwall station page
{{Docklands Light Railway Docklands Light Railway stations in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994 Poplar, London