West India Quay is an area in the

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, England. It is immediately to the north of the

West India Docks The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides and warehouses built to import goods from and export goods and occasionally passengers to the British West Indies on the Isle of Dogs in London the first of which opened in 1802. Follow ...

and

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. The warehouse at West India Quay was used to store imported goods from the West Indies, such as tea, sugar and rum, and is now a Grade I listed building.

Amenities

Museum of London Docklands is in West India Quay, inside one of the two remaining traditional brick warehouses in the West India Docks, as is 1 West India Quay. The

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serves the area. There is a

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cinema, a

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hotel and several restaurants facing the water.

Transport

The north dock of the West India Docks adjacent to the district has been partially drained as part of the construction of

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and new station is being built at the dock (linking to the

).''Work officially starts on Crossrail - Photos''
, ContractJournal.com, accessed 2009-05-17 The SS ''Robin'' and the Steam Tug ''Portwey'' have been moved away from the dock as a result of the works. On 22 April 1991, two

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trains collided at a junction on the West India Quay bridge during morning

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, requiring a shutdown of the entire system and evacuation of the involved passengers by ladder.Another commuter train wreck in London
Jonathan I. Kamens, RISKS Digest Volume 11 Issue 52 Article 1, 23 April 1991''Computer-controlled commuter trains collide in east London'', UPI report relayed by

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news service, 22 April 1991 One of the two trains was travelling automatically, operating without a driver, while the other was under manual control.Re: Trains collide in east London
Ian G Batten, RISKS Digest Volume 11 Issue 54 Article 10, 25 April 1991

Notes

External links

westindiaquayquarter.com

Waterside Mooring

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