| North Greenwich | |
|---|---|
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| Location | North Greenwich |
| Owner | |
| Number of platforms | 1 |
| Key dates | |
| 29 July 1872 (1872-07-29) | Opened |
| 4 May 1926 (1926-05-04) | Closed |
| Other information | |
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North Greenwich was a railway station named after theNorth Greenwich area of theIsle of Dogs in London. It was located on the north side of theRiver Thames nearIsland Gardens in the east of the city.
The present-dayNorth Greenwich station, on theLondon Underground'sJubilee line, is on a different site on the south side of the river, one mile downstream on theGreenwich Peninsula.[1]
North Greenwich was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of theLondon and Blackwall Railway, 4 miles 39 chains (7.2 km) down-line from the western terminus atFenchurch Street, although services did not operate through to Fenchurch Street but instead connected to the Fenchurch Street-Blackwall service atMillwall Junction.Millwall Docks was the preceding station along the line. Opened in July 1872 (slightly later than the other stations on the branch) with the official nameNorth Greenwich & Cubitt Town, it connected with a ferry service toGreenwich south of the river. The ferry was later replaced by theGreenwich Foot Tunnel.
Traffic at the station was always light and, as with the rest of the MER, it closed to passengers in May 1926,.[2] The area was heavily redeveloped following theDocklands developments of the 1980s, and most of theDocklands Light Railway (DLR) betweenIsland Gardens andSouth Quay utilises the old MER route. The original Island Gardens DLR station (at that time the DLR's southern terminus) was built on the north end of the original North Greenwich station site when the DLR opened in 1987. When the DLR was extended toLewisham in the 1990s, a new Island Gardens DLR station was built on the opposite side of Manchester Road, and the former site was demolished and replaced by a block of flats.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Millwall Docks Line and station closed | Great Eastern Railway London and Blackwall Railway | Terminus | ||
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Absorbed by theGreat Eastern Railway in 1866► | ||||||||
51°29′13″N0°0′37″W / 51.48694°N 0.01028°W /51.48694; -0.01028
