Beckton
Location	Beckton
Owner	Never built
Railway companies
Original company	Jubilee line
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Beckton was an authorised railway station planned byLondon Underground but never built. It was to be located inBeckton in theLondon Borough of Newham, in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of theJubilee line. It would have been the terminus of a branch fromCustom House adjacent to a planned depot for the line.

Plans for a new underground line connecting north-west and south-east London via theWest End and theCity of London were first considered in the 1930s. They were developed during the 1950s and 1960s until a plan for theFleet line established a route toLewisham in 1965 with permission to build the first phase toCharing Cross granted in 1969 with the second and third phases approved in 1971 and 1972.^[1]

Phase 1 opened as the Jubilee line in 1979,^[2] but uncertainty as to the appropriate eastern destination of the line and shortage of funds meant that the remaining works were never begun.^[3] An alternative route for Phase 3 was planned and approved in 1980 that followed a more northern alignment toWoolwich Arsenal with a branch fromCustom House to Beckton.^[3] The line from Custom House would have followed the disused route of theGreat Eastern Railway'sBeckton branch.^[3]

Although preparatory works were carried out for Phase 2, neither it nor either of the Phase 3 routes were constructed.^[3] When, in the 1990s, theJubilee line extension to Stratford was constructed, it followed a different route.^[4]Docklands Light Railway services between Custom House and Beckton follow a route along the north side ofRoyal Albert Dock.

Abandoned Plans
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Custom House towardsStanmore		Jubilee line Phase 3 (1980) (never constructed)		Terminus

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• Tube stations in the London Borough of Newham
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