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Woolwich railway station is an Elizabeth line station in Woolwich in London, England which opened on 24 May 2022, [3] [4] and has up to 12 trains per hour to Canary Wharf and Central London. [ 3 ] This station received almost 9 million passengers in the first year of its opening.
Woolwich, North Woolwich: 1984: Service tunnel only accessible by authorised personnel. Millennium Dome cable tunnel Utility tunnel [7] Millennium Dome, West Ham: 1999: Power cable: 2.8-metre (9 ft 2 in) diameter, only accessible by authorised personnel: Jubilee line tunnels Railway tunnel: North Greenwich tube station, Canning Town station ...
Woolwich Arsenal station, a National Rail and Docklands Light Railway interchange in south east London; Woolwich Dockyard railway station, a National Rail station in south east London; North Woolwich railway station, a closed National Rail station situated north of the river Thames North Woolwich Old Station Museum, a small railway museum (closed)
The formation was first known as the Plastic Clay by Thomas Webster in 1816 after the Argile plastique of Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart.It was called the Mottled Clay by Joseph Prestwich in 1846, but in 1853 he proposed the name Woolwich-and-Reading Beds to emphasise the differing local aspects of the series. [1]
Woolwich Dockyard railway station is in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It is 8 miles 56 chains (14.0 km) measured from London Charing Cross. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern. It is in Travelcard Zone 3. It takes its name from the former Woolwich Dockyard.
Woolwich Garrison (now referred to as Woolwich Station) [1] is a garrison or station of the British Army. Geographically it is in Woolwich, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. In terms of command, it is within the Army's London District. At its largest, the garrison oversaw two division headquarters plus supporting units and around 7 battalions.
Woolwich is situated 8.5 miles (13.7 km) from Charing Cross.It has a 1.6 mi (2.5 km) long frontage to the south bank of the River Thames. From the riverside it rises up quickly along the northern slopes of Shooter's Hill towards the common, at 200 ft (60 m) and the ancient London–Dover Road, at 433 ft (132 m).
The station opened on 2 December 2005. Until January 2009, it served as a temporary terminus for the King George V branch of DLR, but the line has since been extended through a tunnel under the River Thames to its new terminus, Woolwich Arsenal. [7] On 5 January 2021, a woman was injured in a serious incident at the station. [8]