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Blackwall
Blackwall Location of Blackwall in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Location	Blackwall
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	2
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2019	1.973 million[2]
2020	0.902 million[3]
2021	1.098 million[4]
2022	1.360 million[5]
2023	1.510 million[6]
Railway companies
Original company	Docklands Light Railway
Key dates
28 March 1994	Opened
Other information
Coordinates	51°30′28″N0°00′25″W / 51.5078°N 0.0070°W /51.5078; -0.0070
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Blackwall is aDocklands Light Railway (DLR) station inBlackwall,London, England. It is located very close to the northern entrance to theBlackwall road tunnel under theRiver Thames. The station is betweenPoplar andEast India stations.

The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on 28 March 1994. There was a previous station very close to this site, calledPoplar station, which was served by theLondon and Blackwall Railway from 6 July 1840 to 3 May 1926. Poplar station was along the route of Aspen Way just to the south and east of the DLR station.Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually farther east, on what is today Jamestown Way. A crossover west of the station allows trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse here.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from Blackwall is:^[7]

• 6 tph toTower Gateway
• 6 tph toBank
• 6 tph toBeckton
• 6 tph toWoolwich Arsenal

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

London Buses route15 serves the station.^[8]

Wikimedia Commons has media related toBlackwall DLR station.

• Docklands Light Railway website – Blackwall station page
• Map of Poplar, 1885.

• Rail transport stations in London fare zone 2
• Docklands Light Railway stations in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1994
• Blackwall, London

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