Royal Victoria DLR station is on the

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(DLR) in

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, east London. The station opened in 1994 and is named after the nearby

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. It is on the DLR's Beckton branch, in

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, and is the nearest station for the northern terminus of the IFS Cloud Cable Car and for London's new

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History

The station is located on a stretch of line first opened in 1855, when the

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(ECR) was forced to divert its line to North Woolwich (the former Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway) around the newly opened

. This line went on to become part of

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's North London line, although there was never a station at the site until the coming of the Docklands Light Railway. When the Docklands Light Railway extension to

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was constructed in the 1990s, its tracks, between

and

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stations, were constructed on the same right of way but to the west and south side of the existing tracks. Royal Victoria station opened on the Docklands Light Railway tracks on 28 March 1994, while North London Line trains continued to pass without stopping on their tracks until that section of the line closed on 9 December 2006. During 2009, as part of the Canning Town DLR flyover and the new DLR line from Canning Town to Stratford, an engineers' siding was added to the Victoria Dock Road side of the station. On 1 June 2009 the Beckton branch was diverted onto the new flyover, which crossed the

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branch and the branch to Stratford International. The flyover was constructed as part of the 3-Car Capacity Enhancement Project to serve Canning Town high-level DLR station. (See main article Docklands Light Railway extension to Stratford International.) It is 330 metres long, and is formed from a number of different structures connected by a continuous reinforced concrete deck cast ''in situ''. In addition, it allows DLR services from Canning Town towards Woolwich and Beckton to depart from any eastbound DLR platform.

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from Royal Victoria is: * 12 tph to of which 6 continue to Tower Gateway * 12 tph to

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours, increasing the service to up to 16 tph in each direction.

Connections

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routes 147, 474 and night route N551 serve the station.

References

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External links

Docklands Light Railway website – Royal Victoria station page
Docklands Light Railway stations in the London Borough of Newham Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994

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