Limehouse
View from DLR unit no. 72 approaching Limehouse, on a special diverted service from Bank to Stratford, due to the weekend closure of the Lewisham branch, on the afternoon of Saturday, 3rd December 2022. This station opened as Stepney on the London & Blackwall Railway in 1840 with the Bow branch link to the GER (on left) opened in 1849. It was renamed Stepney East in 1923 and the 1840 platforms demolished after the end of the Blackwall service in 1926, which saw the line from here to Blackwall, across Limehouse Viaduct, relegated to freight until 1962. The viaduct then lay unused for 25 years until a section of the DLR was laid on part of it and it reopened in August 1987 with new platforms on the site of the demolished ones and the whole station renamed Limehouse. The platforms on the left are now part of the C2C system in to and out of Fenchurch Street.
Location: Limehouse
Original line: Docklands Light Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: London Area Stations 2009-2023
Date: 03/12/2022
Image number: 83613
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