Royal Victoria DLR station

Royal Victoria Docklands Light Railway
The station entrance in 2008
Royal Victoria is located in Greater London
Royal Victoria
Royal Victoria
Location of Royal Victoria in Greater London
LocationRoyal Victoria Dock, Canning Town
Local authorityLondon Borough of Newham
Managed byDocklands Light Railway
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone3
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2019Increase 3.968 million[2]
2020Decrease 2.220 million[3]
2021Increase 2.287 million[4]
2022Increase 2.630 million[5]
2023Increase 2.910 million[6]
Key dates
28 March 1994Opened
Other information
Coordinates51°30′33″N 0°01′07″E / 51.5092°N 0.0187°E / 51.5092; 0.0187
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Royal Victoria DLR station is on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Canning Town, east London. The station opened in 1994 and is named after the nearby Royal Victoria Dock. It is on the DLR's Beckton branch, in Travelcard Zone 3, and is the nearest station for the northern terminus of the IFS Cloud Cable Car and for London's new City Hall.

History

The station is located on a stretch of line first opened in 1855, when the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) was forced to divert its line to North Woolwich (the former Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway) around the newly opened Royal Victoria Dock. This line went on to become part of National Rail's North London line, although there was never a station at the site until the coming of the Docklands Light Railway.[7]

When the Docklands Light Railway extension to Beckton was constructed in the 1990s, its tracks, between Canning Town and Custom House 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.[8]

On 1 June 2009 the Beckton branch was diverted onto the new flyover, which crossed the Woolwich 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.[9]

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from Royal Victoria is:[10]

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

Preceding station   DLR   Following station
Canning Town
  Docklands Light Railway   Custom House
towards Beckton

Connections

London Buses routes 147, 474 and night route N551 serve the station.[11]

References

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  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  7. ^ "A short history of the North Woolwich branch". urban75.org. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
  8. ^ "Crossrail Begins to Get Visible (Part 2)". London Reconnections. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  9. ^ "Transport For London Journey Planner". Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  10. ^ "DLR train timetables". Transport for London. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  11. ^ "Buses from Royal Victoria" (PDF). TfL. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 20 May 2022.