Royal Victoria 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 London Cable Car and for London's new City Hall.

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Royal Victoria
The station entrance in 2008
Royal Victoria Location of Royal Victoria in Greater London
Location	Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town
Local authority	London Borough of Newham
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	3
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2017	4.935 million[2]
2018	3.883 million[3]
2019	3.968 million[4]
2020	2.220 million[5]
2021	2.287 million[6]
Railway companies
Original company	Docklands Light Railway
Key dates
28 March 1994	Opened
Other information
WGS84	51.5092°N 0.0187°E / 51.5092; 0.0187
London transport portal

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, whilst 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]

Connections

London Buses routes 147, 474 and night route N551 serve the station.[10]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Royal Victoria DLR station.

External links

• Docklands Light Railway website – Royal Victoria station page

Preceding station	DLR			Following station
Canning Town towards Bank or Tower Gateway		Docklands Light Railway		Custom House for Excel towards Beckton
Out of system interchange
	London Cable Car
Greenwich Peninsula		London Cable Car		Terminus

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