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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 Londo ...
(DLR) station next to Island Gardens
Island Gardens is a public park located at the southern end of the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the north bank of the River Thames. The park was formally opened on 3 August 1895 by local politician Will Crooks.
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on the Isle of Dogs
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, East London
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. It is just north of the River Thames
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and is close to the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs and the River Thames
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.
Island Gardens is a public park with a notable view across the river to the classical buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital and the National Maritime Museum
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, with Greenwich Park
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forming a backdrop. The northern entrance of the Greenwich foot tunnel
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is within the park.
Development
The original Island Gardens DLR station was opened on 31 August 1987 as the southern terminus of the initial system. It was built adjacent to the site of the old North Greenwich railway station
North Greenwich was a railway station named after the North Greenwich area of the Isle of Dogs in London. It was located on the north side of the River Thames near Island Gardens in the east of the city, and is not to be confused with the pres ...
, which had been the southern terminus of the former Millwall Extension 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. ...
. It was elevated with two platforms, each capable of accommodating a single car train. The station required significant rebuilding to allow the platforms to take two-car trains.
The extension to Lewisham
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passes under the River Thames
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in a deep tube tunnel. This required a new station to be built slightly further away from the river, north of Manchester Road, and underground. The original station and the southern end of the connecting viaduct
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have since been demolished./ref>
Pre-opening incident
On 10 March 1987, before the system opened, a test train crashed throughbuffer stop
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The design of the buffer stop is dependent, in part, on the kind of couplings ...
s at the original high-level terminus and was left hanging from the end of the elevated track. The accident was caused by unauthorised tests being run before the correct installation of the wayside safety system had been verified; an omission in the wayside system allowed the train to travel too fast on the approach to the terminus. The train was being driven manually at the time.London Docklands Light Railway; Northern Line's Dot-Matrix IndicatorsRISKS Digest
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Volume 5 Issue 29 Article 3, 13 August 1987Report on the Docklands Light Railway Accident Which Occurred at Island Gardens Station on 10 March 1987, ''Modern Railways'' (London), May 1987."'Unauthorised Tests' Caused DLR Crash", ''Modern Railways'' (London), June 1987.
Connections
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routes 135 135 may refer to:
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* AD 135
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* 135 (number)
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, the ''D'' prefix route D7 and night route N550 serve the station.
Services
References
External links
Docklands Light Railway website – Island Gardens station page
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