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Canada Water is a
London Underground
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and
London Overground
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station located in
Canada Water
Canada Water is an area of the Docklands in south-east London. It is named after a freshwater lake and wildlife refuge. Canada Water tube, Overground and bus station is immediately north of the lake, along with Canada Water Library which ov ...
, in south
London
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, England. It takes its name from
Canada Water
Canada Water is an area of the Docklands in south-east London. It is named after a freshwater lake and wildlife refuge. Canada Water tube, Overground and bus station is immediately north of the lake, along with Canada Water Library which ov ...
, a lake which was created from a former
dock in the
Port of London
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.
The station is located on the
Jubilee line
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between and stations and on the
East London line between and stations, and provides an
interchange point between the two lines. It is in
Travelcard Zone 2
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Ba ...
.
London Overground
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services commenced on the East London line on 27 April 2010, as the replacement extension of the historic
tube line.
History
Canada Water was originally intended to be a stop on the aborted
Fleet line Extension to
Thamesmead
Thamesmead is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith. It mainly con ...
. The extension was never built, but Canada Water became the only projected Fleet line Extension station to be realised on the
Jubilee Line Extension
The Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee line from to through south and east London. An eastward extension of the line was first proposed in the 1970s. As part of the development of London Docklands, ...
.
[Kenneth Powell. ''The Jubilee Line Extension: A Celebration'', p. 84. Laurence King, 2000. ]
The station is a wholly new building on a derelict site formerly occupied by Albion Dock, part of the old
Surrey Commercial Docks
The Surrey Commercial Docks were a large group of docks in Rotherhithe, South East London, located on the south bank (the Surrey side) of the River Thames.
The docks operated in one form or another from 1696 to 1969. Most were subsequently fi ...
.
The station was one of the first designed for the Jubilee line Extension. The contract for the station's construction was initially awarded to
Wimpey in 1993 for the sum of £21.3 million and was later taken over by
Tarmac.
[Bob Mitchell. ''Jubilee Line Extension: From Concept to Completion'', pp. 169-172. Thomas Telford, 2003] Construction began in 1995. It proved extremely challenging, requiring the excavation (by
cut-and-cover
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) of a void long, wide and deep. The building of the East London Line station required a separate slot at right angles, long, deep and tapering in width, incorporating a Victorian railway tunnel. Construction was complicated by the high water table on the site, which is located on the Thames flood plain; extensive deep-well dewatering was required to lower the water table before the enclosure to the excavations could be built. A total of 120,000 m³ (4,237,760 ft³) of spoil had to be excavated. An additional complication was the location of the excavation site, near the foundations of two existing 22-storey tower blocks and the northern end of the former Canada Dock, now the ornamental lake
Canada Water
Canada Water is an area of the Docklands in south-east London. It is named after a freshwater lake and wildlife refuge. Canada Water tube, Overground and bus station is immediately north of the lake, along with Canada Water Library which ov ...
. The section of East London line running through the station was completely reconstructed, with the 19th-century brick railway tunnel being dismantled and the track relaid over a new structure bridging the Jubilee line tracks below. As the East London line had to be closed for this work, London Underground took the opportunity to carry out other remedial works such as repairs to the
Thames Tunnel
The Thames Tunnel is a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping. It measures 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high and is 1,300 feet (396 m) long, running at a depth of ...
, a short distance to the north.
[David Bennett, Dennis Gilbert, Roland Paoletti. ''Architecture of the Jubilee Line Extension'', p. 64-71. Thomas Telford, 2004. ]
It was opened on 19 August 1999, served initially by East London line trains. The Jubilee line passenger service from the station began on 17 September that year.
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Cinemax
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British-American spy drama,
''Hunted'' (TV series).
Canada Water was the first station to receive external sponsorship;
Nestlé
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sponsored the station on the day of the
2015 London Marathon, and roundels in the station were edited to advertise Nestlé's
Buxton Water. The one-day sponsorship was part of a plan to increase
Transport for London's non-fare revenue, costing Nestlé £110,000.
Architecture
The station, which was the first to be designed in the Jubilee line Extension project, has been described by the
Hong Kong
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MTR's chief architect
Roland Paoletti
Romano Roland Paoletti, CBE (23 April 1931 – 13 November 2013) was a British-Italian architect. He was best known for his work on the early stations for Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway, and for commissioning the award-winning designs of the ...
as "the only station on the JLE that has been built to the strict engineering economies of the specification of a Hong Kong interchange station." Above ground, its most salient feature is a striking glass "drum" across, which covers a deep opening descending almost to the Jubilee line platforms, below the surface. This feature was designed to allow natural light to reach deep into the station, a design principle common to many of the stations on the Jubilee line Extension. The drum was designed and constructed by
Buro Happold.
It is notably similar to the brick drum designed by
Charles Holden
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for station on the
Piccadilly line in the 1930s, but is much more oriented towards the entry of daylight.
The drum is accompanied by a glass-roofed
bus station
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designed by
Eva Jiřičná
Eva Jiřičná (born 3 March 1939) is a Czech architect and designer, active in London and Prague. She is the founder of the architectural atelier ''Eva Jiricna Architects'', operating in Britain (at first as ''Jiřičná Kerr Associates'') fro ...
which serves as a hub for services in the
Rotherhithe
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and
Bermondsey
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areas. The bus station was designed to fit in a relatively small site between the station drum, the railway's ventilation openings, a high wall and the adjoining tower blocks. Its most distinctive feature is a row of -long roof spans cantilevered from a row of central columns supporting a -long glass and aluminium canopy. This provides acoustic protection to the residential blocks and shelters passengers waiting below.
Below ground, the station is dominated by a huge concrete box, large enough to accommodate one of the
Canary Wharf
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skyscrapers on its side. It is lined by a series of huge concrete pillars designed to take the weight of a planned nine-storey building on the surface as well as the roadway and bus station.
The station has four lifts and eight escalators with an average rise of about to connect the lower parts of the station with street level. It is built on three levels: the ticket office and shops lie immediately below ground, the two north-south East London line platforms are situated on the second level below the ground, and the two east-west Jubilee line platforms are on the lowest level down.
The station was the winner of the
Civic Trust Building of the Year Award for 2000, and the Interchange Awards' Medium Size Project of the Year award for 2001.
Connections
London Buses routes
1,
47,
188,
199
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,
225
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381
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,
C10,
P12 and night routes
N199 and
N381 serve the station and
bus station
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.
Services
Canada Water is the busiest two-platform National Rail station, with 25 million entries and exits to the NR platforms in 2017–18.
[ORR statistics as per infobox]
References
External links
Eva Jiricna Architects - Canada Water Bus Station
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