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Map of the Docklands Light Railway network. The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system that serves the London Docklands area of east and south-east London. First opened on 31 August 1987, the DLR was a key component in the regeneration of large areas of disused industrial land into valuable commercial and residential ...
A first-generation DLR train crosses West India Dock in September 1987. The railway was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, [27] and passenger services began on 31 August. [28] [4] The initial system comprised two routes, from Tower Gateway and Stratford to Island Gardens, with a total length of 12.1 km (7.5 miles). [25]
Docklands Station (Stáisiún Dugthailte, also known as Ceantar na nDugaí [2]) is a terminus railway station serving the Dublin Docklands area in Ireland.It is owned and operated by Iarnród Éireann and was part of the Irish Government's Transport 21 initiative.
The branch was built by the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company. When most of the line was sold to the Great Eastern Railway, the builders retained the lines in the dock area and changed the company name to Felixstowe Dock and Railway. [8] As the docks have expanded since the 1960s, so to have the railways to serve them.
As seen in map circa 1905, rail lines dominated the city at the turn of the century. The National Docks Railway ran along the shores of the not yet landfilled bay, now site of Liberty State Park Bridge from embankment to trestle at Pacific and Grand Viaduct crossing Lower Jersey City Tunnel rebuilt to handle higher clearances
Dagenham Dock is a National Rail station in the Dagenham Dock neighbourhood of Dagenham in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, east London.The station is on the Tilbury loop of the London, Tilbury and Southend line, located 10 miles 45 chains (17.0 km) down the line from London Fenchurch Street between Barking to the west and Rainham to the east.
The Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway (ADR) was a company formed in 1882 from the former Newport Dock Company of 1865. There was considerable demand for dock accommodation in Newport, South Wales, chiefly for the export or coastal transport of iron ore and coal. The Newport Dock Company had built an earlier dock that was now ...
Opening in 1856, the inaugural 11.9 kilometres (7.4 miles) railway between Adelaide and Port Dock railway station — named Port Adelaide until 1916 — was the second railway in the colony of South Australia, and the first government-owned railway in the British Empire.