Gallions Reach
DLR unit no. 51 from Tower Gateway to Beckton approaching its penultimate stop at Gallions Reach, perhaps the least-used station on the DLR system, on 7th June 2008. The original Gallions station, terminus of a branch from the North Woolwich line at Custom House, was closed with the line after a stick of bombs on the first day of the London 'Blitz' of World War Two, 7th September 1940, brought both to a permanent end. Its remains survived for very many years but have now vanished completely beneath new roads and housing when the bomb sites began to be redeveloped from the 1970s onwards.
Location: Gallions Reach
Original line: Docklands Light Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: Docklands Light Railway, 2008-2023
Date: 07/06/2008
Image number: 81242
