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East India DLR station

Coordinates: 51°30′33″N 0°00′08″W / 51.5093°N 0.0021°W / 51.5093; -0.0021
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East India Docklands Light Railway
East India is located in Greater London
East India
East India
Location of East India in Greater London
LocationBlackwall
Local authorityLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed byDocklands Light Railway
Number of platforms2
AccessibleYes[1]
Fare zone2 and 3
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2018Decrease 3.638 million[2]
2019Increase 3.878 million[3]
2020Decrease 1.703 million[4]
2021Increase 2.333 million[5]
2022Increase 3.980 million[6]
Key dates
1994Opened
Other information
Coordinates51°30′33″N 0°00′08″W / 51.5093°N 0.0021°W / 51.5093; -0.0021
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East India is a station on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Blackwall in the London Docklands, England. The station is situated in the East End of London that takes its name from the nearby former East India Docks of the Port of London, where ships trading with the Indian subcontinent used to dock.

It is on the Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal branches of the DLR, and is in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3. It opened, with the Beckton Branch, on 28 March 1994.

The historic Greenwich Prime Meridian crosses the DLR at the eastern end of the platforms, which is marked by an illuminated blue line underneath the tracks at street level. The modern IERS Reference Meridian used by GPS crosses the tracks approximately 117 metres further east between Neutron Tower and Switch House, but is unmarked.

History

East India station was originally to be named Brunswick Wharf and this name was shown on the 1994 'all projections' map.[7] 'Brunswick' is now a code destination used to indicate that a train in the depot has been cleaned. In February 2001 an episode of the ITV series The Bill featured DLR trains with 'Brunswick' as a dummy destination for filming purposes.

Connections

London Buses services serves the station, local route D3 .[8]

References

  1. ^ "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.
  2. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2018. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  7. ^ Mr Beck's Underground map, Garland, K. p 63
  8. ^ https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490002033Y/east-india-station?lineId=d3
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