| Poplar | |
|---|---|
 Poplar railway station in 1962 | |
| Location | Poplar |
| Grid reference | TQ384806 |
| Owner | |
| Key dates | |
| 6 July 1840 (1840-07-06) | Opened |
| 1845[1] | Re-sited |
| 4 May 1926 (1926-05-04) | Closed |
| Other information | |
 London transport portal | |
Poplar was a railway station inPoplar, London, that was opened in 1840 by theCommercial Railway (later the London and Blackwall Railway (LBR)) and was situated betweenMillwall Junction andBlackwall, 3 miles 16 chains (5.1 km) down-line fromFenchurch Street. It was closed in 1926,[2] at which time it was owned by theLondon and North Eastern Railway.
The station was opened on 6 July 1840 on the west side of Brunswick Street, to the north of theBlackwall Yard shipyard, but was re-sited five years later across the road to the east side.[3] It remained open until 4 May 1926, when all passenger services on the line east ofStepney ceased. The station buildings were demolished in the 1930s but the platforms remained as the railway fell into disuse in the 1960s before finally being demolished in the early 1980s to make way for theDocklands Light Railway.
During its life there wasanother station named Poplar on theNorth London Railway (NLR), which was situated by theEast India Dock Road, to the north-west of the LBR station. The NLR station was referred to as Poplar (East India Road) to avoid confusion with the LBR station. Poplar (East India Road) closed in 1944 and its site is now occupied byAll Saints DLR station.
No trace of the LBR's Poplar station remains today and the site is occupied by Aspen Way and is adjacent toBlackwall DLR station. The only remaining building of Poplar station's era is a former accumulator tower for the adjacent Poplar Dock. The station's current namesake,Poplar DLR station, lies to the west of the original LBR station site.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station | ||
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| Millwall Junction Line and station closed | Great Eastern Railway London and Blackwall Railway | Blackwall Line and station closed | ||
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Absorbed by theGreat Eastern Railway in 1866► | ||||||||
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