Gallions Reach DLR station is a station on the

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(DLR) in the

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area of east

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. It serves the University of East London (UEL) Docklands Campus as well as recent residential developments around Royal Albert Dock. The station is located on the DLR's Beckton branch, between

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and

Beckton Beckton is a suburb in east London, England, located east of Charing Cross and part of the London Borough of Newham. Adjacent to the River Thames, the area consisted of unpopulated marshland known as the East Ham Levels in the parishes of Bark ...

stations. It is in

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. The crossover junction north of the station, which is normally used for trains from the west going to

Beckton DLR depot Beckton Depot is the primary railway maintenance depot for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). History Upon the initial opening of the DLR in 1987, Poplar DLR depot was the primary maintenance depot. But the proposed extension to Beckton would ...

, can also be used for trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse. This is the easternmost station on the DLR, as Beckton is actually further west. Similar to other stations on the Beckton branch, the platforms have not been extended to accommodate 3-car trains, with

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being used instead.

History

When the station opened with the Beckton extension in 1994, it was surrounded by

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such as the old

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, which closed in 1970. Given this, ridership was very low, despite suburban residential development in nearby

. Ridership grew following the opening of the

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and

Gallions Reach Shopping Park Gallions Reach Shopping Park is a major out-of-town retail park in Beckton, east London, England. Located on Armada Way beside the River Thames, Gallions Reach is the largest retail park in London and the M25, containing 34 units in an area of ...

in the early 2000s and residential development around Royal Albert Dock in the 2010s. By 2019, ridership had increased to 1.42m a year. In the mid-2000s, there were proposals for a DLR extension to Dagenham Dock, which would have branched off east of the station. This was cancelled in 2008. A route of

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was also proposed to pass through the area. The local area has also been proposed for various road crossings of the River Thames – the East London River Crossing and

Gallions Reach Crossing The Gallions Reach Crossing is a proposed River Thames crossing close to Gallions Reach in East London, running between Beckton in the London Borough of Newham and Thamesmead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Originally a proposed ferry crossing ...

Future

In the mid-2010s, an extension of the DLR to Thamesmead was proposed. , the proposed route of the extension diverges just after Gallions Reach, turning east to pass by

before heading to Thamesmead via Beckton Riverside.

Connections

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routes 101,

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, 366 and night route N551 serve the station.

References

External links

Docklands Light Railway website – Gallions Reach station page
{{Docklands Light Railway Docklands Light Railway stations in the London Borough of Newham Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994 Beckton

History

Future

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