Canada Water is an interchange station in East London of the London Overground (former East London Line) and London Underground Jubilee Line [1].
| Information |
| Type: |
Transport for London
(London Overground &
Jubilee Line) |
| Station code: |
ZCW |
| Opened: |
1999 |
| Platforms: |
4 |
Canada Water was opened in 1999, a new station built on the site of the former Albion Dock. The station taking it's name from a lake made from part of the former Canada Dock. The station was an interchange of the Jubilee Line which was being extended East in the late 1990s to
Stratford and the East London Line.
The station has a circular surface building with subterranean platforms, the Jubilee Line platforms have platform edge doors like the other underground stations of the Jubilee Line Extension [2][3]. In 2010 the East London Line became part of London Overground.
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| London Overground 378 216 arrives |
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| Jubilee Line platforms |
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| View down the Jubilee Line platform, platform edge doors on the right |
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| London Overground platforms |
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| A London Overground train departs... |
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| ...as does a Jubilee Line train! |
[1] Vic Mitchell & Keith Smith, East London Line (Middleton Press, 1999) Fig, 77
[2] Jason Cross, London Underground Guide 2017 (Train Crazy, 2017) p. 108
[3] Mike Horne, The Jubilee Line (Capital Transport, 2000) p. 77
