Every Renamed Station on the DLR

[@peterjohncooper]

I'm always terrified that therre is going to be an exam at the end of these videos. I try to concentrate but the pictures are too beguiling.

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Where do you get the study notes?

[@jerribee1]

@@marvintpandroid2213 London Underground for Dummies would be a good start.

[@onpoint9792]

Don't give him ideas now

[@oliverstemp9132]

That why I also watch so many Disney theme park advice videos

[@sianiswack633]

review is your friend here, friend

[@robinsonfamily1000]

Thanks

[@chrissaltmarsh6777]

I did a contract (IT) at an investment bank at Canary Wharf. From Balham, that involved going through Bank, a horrid place, so DLR was a peaceful respite (although the jankers were not). One day, one of the hankers offered me a ride back to London Bridge in his Porsche. It took twice as long as the train. Silly person.

[@cyberwomble7524]

The disinterest in developing East London's infrastructure (especially after the docks closed) meant there were a lot of bits and bobs left over (like abandoned railways and derelict buildings) when they finally got round to injecting some cash into it, though that only really benefitted the locals when they started to kick up a bit of a fuss. Visited my old neighborhood in Stepney about twenty tears ago and was shocked to find they actually got round to filling in the bomb craters that had been there since the war. Very posh! It's quite fun using Google Street View and Google Earth's historical imagery to see the changes all over London - and of course Jago's exceptional videos.

[@sianiswack633]

agreed, it's a revelation. i looked at Alan Wood's films of Stratford, suggested by Jago the other day,, and I began to see what all the fuss was about. I mean to say, I got a much clearer picture of the trains and goods routes

[@j.b.w.]

I really like the DLR and use it whenever I am in London. I remember once a few years ago I was coming back from Canary Wharf at night and I was talking to the train "driver" who was explaining how they use keys to make sure the automated systems are working as they should. He was a nice guy and seemed passionate about his work.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Cornhill sounds like a name you'd come up with to attract immigrants from the American Midwest and South America to make them move to that part of London and think there's a hill with maize, but end up trolling them because there's no corn there.

[@scythal]

You should rename a hill in Pyongyang "Burgerhill"! After all, Kim Jong-il invented it...

[@highpath4776]

Its so called because walking up it gives you corns on your foot

[@hyperdistortion2]

I also really appreciate the vintage newness of the DLR; modern and antique all at once. Kinda hoping for an ‘Every renamed station on Tramlink’ video; I suspect it’d be longer than I’d anticipate!

[@JagoHazzard]

I may or may not be researching this…

[@paulevans9307]

@@JagoHazzard every renamed station in the dangleway

[@neilbain8736]

Vintage newness. I like that. Yes. The last 40 years have flown by.

[@camenbert5837]

Every re-named stations on the Purple Line...

[@zra_performance]

@@JagoHazzardyou should do a vid on the diff levels of DLR. Stations like Beckton are fairly surface level, and sometimes goes underground into tunnels later on. Other stations, like West Silvertown or Pontoon Dock are high, above land. The way the DLR dithered between above and below ground is both curious and confusing 😂

[@sylvainldgo7361]

Too bad there is no DLR branch going to King's Cross St Pancras, I would have loved hearing Jago explaining the story of that one one more time. x)

[@fredashay]

I want to go to St. Liver. Or maybe St. Kidney.

[@comicus01]

@@fredashay How about St. Spleen? St. Appendix?

[@stephenspackman5573]

St. Bladder, St. Armpit, St. Cochlea, St. Anus. This game never grows stale.

[@davidty2006]

DLR to kings cross... Oh jeez the tracks around there will end up looking like bank...

[@fredashay]

@@comicus01 Yes! I want to go to those stations, too!

[@clickrick]

"Many of these old routes have been recycled into ...." You missed allotments, sir. Allotments!

[@christopherdean1326]

at 4:37, to the extreme left of the picture, you can see one of the ticket machines I used to repair/service in my last paid employment.

[@thehaprust6312]

It's been a decade and a half since I read it, but I do recommend Janet Foster's "Docklands: Cultures in Conflict, Worlds in Collision" as an important analysis of the Docklands redevelopment. There are definitely some good things that came out of it (the DLR being one of the best), but also many aspects were handled poorly.

[@thehaprust6312]

For anyone that cares, I will also recommend Foster's "Villains: Crime and Community in the Inner City", but that is less germane to the discussion at hand.

[@sams3015]

I was staying in Cannon Town recently on my last trip to London. The DLR is so handy, it still feels fairly modern despited it age

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

“To quote the man Joey Grimaldi: Here we are again” So just the family friendly original version of “Ah sh!t, here we go again” from GTA San Andreas before it became “Ah sh!t, here we go again” For what it is, the DLR has served as a great substitute to connect East London to the the main part of the city before the Elizabeth Line came around. And unlike the Elizabeth Line, you can pretend you’re driving it.

[@Diptera_Larvae]

The “renamed foot paths” is going to be such a great series of videos!

[@dodgydruid]

For one of the best views of old Beckton gas works, episodes of the Sweeney and Professional's used the industrial backdrop often but the John Wayne film Brannigan gives you prob the best panorama of the size of the place and the sheer industrialness of it, it was a huge site with plenty of rail to feed it with coal and to take away clinkers and ash for use in fertilisers and chemical production elsewhere. BTW any chance of Deptford wharf branch line being covered? It used to peel off the East London Line just after leaving New Cross and had quite a sorting yard, maybe something about Deptford creek lifting railway bridge?

[@roberthuron9160]

The DLR,seemingly is/was like Topsy,it just grew!! London's answer to an automated octopus 🐙! Really amazing with the amalgamation of the old,and new!! Thanks Jago,for another glimpse of London's transit history!! Thanks again 👍 ☺️ 😊!

[@isashax]

On my first trip to London in 1997 Island Gardens was the terminus and I crossed to Greenwhich using the foot tunnel under the Thames. Those were the times!

[@daveharris7224]

An excellent video on my favourite & local line. However you missed a trick. Originally there was due to be a stop called Carmen Street. When money became tight this was not actually built. However, many years later the station was built, but was renamed Langdon Park, even though the west side of the station is in Carmen Street. We were just happy to finally get the stop, so no one kicked up a fuss.

[@highpath4776]

Well everyone would have called it very Bizzy, or Carmen Geddit, Miranda.

[@daveharris7224]

Very good! I like your style.

[@DadgeCity]

"Central" is one of my favourite disused station names.

[@gritintheoyster]

An amazing amount of research gone in here on when the various stations were named, renamed and unnamed.

[@simonochana3189]

Back in the 1970’s/80’s I always thought Stratford High Street was a station. Always wondered why it looked abandoned. This is the 1st time I’ve seen refurbished and in use👍🏿

[@luxford60]

although the current station doesn't actually use the original statin building, apart from as an entrance.

[@camenbert5837]

Nice to see a reference to the late Cyril Freezer. He got an obit in the Telegraph, which is a nice touch

[@send2gl]

The DLR is a fascinating railway, amazed at some of the gradients, thought the wheels would slip.

[@Taschenschieber]

Then you'd enjoy Stuttgart, where the tram has a bit with an 8.5% gradient (not a typo). And that's just the regular tram, not the rack railway tram.

[@send2gl]

@@Taschenschieber Wow, guess like with cars nowadays traction control eliminates the slip provided it is mechanically capable of climbing that gradient.

[@rogajones]

Surprised you didn't mention Shadwell East London Line - originally a main line connection between the GER at Liv Street and (I think) LBSC at New Cross. Now part of overground. Until the early 60s was a busy freight line. Also had an incarnation as a tube line - linked by St Mary's curve, just after Whitechapel, to the district line.

[@caileanshields4545]

The DLR is much like the Tyne & Wear Metro - a video there, if ever you manage to get up to Newcastle, Jago.... ;) - with the mixture of new/reused infrastructure. As with the DLR, the T&WM stock also have the best seats in the house (sort of, given the Metro-Cammell Metrocars have a half-width drivers' cab), but that is due to disappear with the new Stadler-built stock that's currently under construction (they have full-width cabs).

[@davidty2006]

Hmmm T&W Metro runs on old tracks of the former tyneside electrics that existed since the north eastern railway. Although difference now is the fact the metro uses Cantanary power instead of the old 3rd rail.

[@bobcosmic]

Always going to find gold nuggets of information with Jago Hazzard

[@juliansadler6263]

Thanks for mentioning CJ Freezer. Minories the original model railway in a violin case/suitcase etc. But just imagine waiting for your train while the gaslight flares in the murk and the Ripper stalks the streets above!

[@javindo]

I just wish they gave in and renamed the Stratford International stations to something more relevant/interesting, East Village, Celebration Avenue, Olympic Park perhaps...

[@DavidShepheard]

One day we will rejoin the EU and the Eurostar will start stopping at Stratford International.

[@jimmeade2976]

Canary Wharf's original station name (1987) was Canary Quay, which was shown as CAQ on the DLR's control displays at their Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC) at Poplar. The station never opened to passengers as the Canary Wharf building complex construction started about the same time the DLR opened for service. A few years later, the station eventually opened as Canary Wharf, and the DLR's control displays were changed to CAW.

[@fumthings]

09:34 " the DLR. the fact that its simultaneously old and new" its trackways are borrowed from other railways, and its trains are painted...red with some blue!

[@StLouis-yu9iz]

I’m so jealous you get to ride such a great system around regularly. :(I’m American) Thanks for sharing!

[@enisra_bowman]

for the record: i like model railroads and found it very interesting even when i did not knew it, but well, it's more an english term

[@barneypaws4883]

Bow church station reminds me a bit of a petrol station

[@john1703]

I think we should be told what would happen, if all of Jago's videos were "smooshed together". 🤣

[@uries15]

4:12 Thames sailing barge Xylonite. I sailed on her 40 years ago from Maldon up to Harwich and back.

[@JagoHazzard]

I love that boat, it highlights just how long the era of the Thames sailing barge was. Here’s a sailboat literally named after a type of plastic.

[@mrxmry3264]

5:45 i remember that. first time i came to london in 91 it was above ground, close to the river.

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Interesting, particularly as I know next to sod-all about the DLR. 👍

[@Andrewjg_89]

As the Docklands Light Railway was built and opened in 1987. Southeast London (including Greenwich and Lewisham) does benefit from the DLR with better transport links and East London also relies on the DLR since the extension was completed in recent years plus with the extension to Thamesmead. And the DLR took over the former North London Line between Stratford & Canning Town since it once was operated by Silverlink Metro. Also DLR is getting new light rail transit from CAF and is to enter service possibly from next year or in 2024. And a new DLR station called Thames Wharf that is to be built and could be completed next year.

[@AndrewGruffudd]

It boggles the mind, when the mind is prone to being boggled through lack of more useful stimulus, that whatever powers the proverbial bee didn't, when railings and whatnot were being recycled for the war effort, why the rails that consisted the lines which were closed during the war weren't similarly reused, either as rails elsewhere or as javelins against Jerry.

[@highpath4776]

wrong type of steel I think

[@AndrewGruffudd]

@@highpath4776 sounds like an excuse in the same league as leaves on the line. That said, leaves on the line is, apparently, a problem because it wreaks havoc with communication systems.

[@DaVane]

The same as I will never get tired of your voice. Cheerio!

[@davejolaurencharlie]

I'm old enough to remember when West Ham was just a single platform station on the District Line that closed early. Right next door to the Sausage Factory* - as we used to call it. *Not a euphemism.

[@JohannaInTheCorner]

Aaah I fondly recall attending a public interest meeting in Beckton, prior to the arrival of the DLR, where the opposition to losing other transport services once the DLR was to open resulted in a very clear statement of the terrible service as “Dont Like Running.”

[@iangriffiths9840]

Ahh! All the names of the stations on the Diddy Little Railway. The history which predates the history.

[@Bunter.948]

... and I'm confident that your faithful viewers will never get tired of you, Mr H. A top-notch video, entirely up to your excellent standard. Thank you, Mr H. Simon T

[@prudencepineapple9448]

I know it from the Limehouse Golum.......'and here we are again'. Good movie. Now I know where the line comes from.

[@spillage9392]

It's not quite a renaming but King George V effectively replaced the old North Woolwich station, so that sort of counts. It's the best we on the Woolwich branch have got anyway!

[@JagoHazzard]

I did debate including that one. And by the same token, London City Airport/Silvertown.

[@neilbain8736]

My ears picked up and I gurgled into my coffee with excitement when you said Minories and 1953, right at the heart of The Goons. Spike and the rest loved the sound of words and silly voices, both together, and had a thing about Min: Minnie Bannister, West of Min ster library, and Minories which I think was uttered in the Quatermess episode. Though in fact that might have been a corruption of Mind the Doors, and anyway since you actually said 1853, it only proves that radio should have had subtitles long ago and I don't know why I'm writing this but it's a really entertaining video nonetheless and helped pass a really great cup of coffee.

[@Kevinfordsynthesizers]

Always a treat t listen to sir. I remember wondering back in the day what the then wasteland would turn into with help from the DLR, it’s been an interesting journey.

[@Garner84]

Jago AND THE HAZARDS

[@thomaswin5535]

Glad someone's living my dream of visiting every station on the British train network. On a side note the West India station surrounding looks a bit like Boston (probably due to that building with a pyramid at the top).

[@baxtermarrison5361]

I wonder if, like the London Underground which runs heritage steam-hauled trains on occasion, the DLR could not do something similar given its history. Seeing a steam locomotive making its way through the old docks would be a fantastic sight.

[@Taschenschieber]

I doubt the CBTC system on the DLR can handle that, tbh.

[@baxtermarrison5361]

@@Taschenschieber There is one way to find out.... 🚂

[@highpath4776]

@@Taschenschieber There is that bit of no railway over the bridge that the DLR didnt use, Suppose that could be used for heritage

[@Dave_Sisson]

There are a lot of fairly steep gradients on the DLR that steam locomotives hauling a train would struggle with. Most of them can't handle a grade of much over 1 in 40. Then there's the issue of weight, much of the DLR was built for lightweight "Electric Multiple Units" rather than heavy steam locomotives, so the track, bridges, etc. might not be strong enough to take steam trains.

[@davidty2006]

I mean it is a light railway.. soo biggest engine that would fit will probs be a 0-6-0 shunter.

[@JamesPetts]

It's a shame that they renamed "Crossharbour and London Arena", as it was good for trivia questions about how many TfL stations had "London" in their name (at the time, 2; now 1).

[@scythal]

They should rename "Custom House for ExCeL" to "Custom House for Exhibition Centre London" just to bring it back up to two!

[@highpath4776]

whats the other one ? ( I assume its not London Road, Guildford )

[@JamesPetts]

@@highpath4776 London Bridge

[@RJSRdg]

There's also London City Airport on the DLR Woolwich branch.

[@iankemp1131]

And there's London Fields, but that's Overground so you can then argue over whether that's TfL or not. Sounds like the classic opportunity for a pub quiz disputed answer.

[@aw34565]

+1 for Cyril Freezer / Minories references.

[@danteshydratshirt2360]

i really need to go on the DLR the next time I visit London

[@yorkshireball_animations]

I always say CUSTOM HOUSE FOR EXCEL because its name is just unusual and funny to me

[@neilthehermit4655]

Jago - I've got it ! - You have sneakily been playing your own version of "Mornington Crescent" with all these name change videos! - Thanks for another piece of confusing,fun history.

[@njlkerins]

Excellent video, thank you. I hadn't heard the expression "a bit of a swizz" in a looong time! 😀

[@ReubenAshwell]

Nice to see this series has made a comeback, very interesting to hear about the renamed DLR stations or the ones on the sites of old stations.

[@adamhenley8295]

Ah the DLR - easily my favourite part of my commute down to Canary Wharf when I had to “show my face” in London twice a week The morning ride as the city was waking up was always special

[@StinkyPeteThePirate]

"a bit of a swizz" had to Google that one.

[@mkendallpk4321]

Jago is the KZbin expert on London railways. Now which station will be renamed today?

[@1fourcore]

1987 worked at Beckton old gas works site .Next to Windsor terrace . At the texas homcare they built there . Was all just Marsh land . Watch full metal jacket filmed there . Then they started building the houses and the dlr ....I was 21yrs old . Sees a life time ago .

[@highpath4776]

indeed very strange how something from the 1980s seems 'old'

[@esmeephillips5888]

'Central' is my favourite grandiloquent name: a dockers' halt with a sparse shuttle service. Not 'Albert Dock Central' or even 'East End Central' or 'London Central'- just 'Central', as if it were the hub of the country's or planet's railways. Mr Hazzard says there were no renamings eastward. But Gallions Reach on the DLR is only a few yards from Manor Way, the penultimate stop on the old Gallions branch which German bombers knocked out in the 1940 blitzkrieg.

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

What amuses me about the ExCeL is, that its name is an acronym or abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London, however on the facade it says (rather newly) "ExCeL London", which makes it the Exhibtion Centre London London. And then also it's often referred to as the "ExCeL Centre", making it the Exhibition Centre London Centre. One day it'll probably become the Ex-ExCeL... [For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]

[@highpath4776]

Barking Road sounds like one of those GWR Stations in the Middle of Nowhere. Its a long walk to Barking from Canning Town (done it)

[@delurkor]

I understand the problem with the use of Excel in station names is because it is on loan. What, you never heard of Excel - lent. Ba-bump, pish.

[@truckerallikatuk]

I'd give a reply here, but !ref

[@roderickjoyce6716]

@@truckerallikatuk He's here all week but DON'T try the chicken. 😁

[@hens0w]

Stratford international has never been renamed despite having never seen an international train stop

[@peterdean8009]

Stafford?

[@roderickjoyce6716]

StRaTFord unless Eurostar have been running invisible trains up the Trent Valley main line. 😀

[@IanTindale]

What about Brunswick? (Which even used to be programmed into the train word-related-to-place-displaying-thing in the DLR trains back when they had those awful failure-prone multiple-segment LCD units to display the words related to places on) (and trains resting or even sleeping in Poplar would be switched to display Brunswick for some codified reason)

[@highpath4776]

Is that the junction name and not a station stop ?

[@captaincodpiece3263]

Very informative as ever. I too am a fan of the DLR, though what I’m really waiting for is for Jago to tackle Crystal Palace in his inimitable style

[@Duececoupe]

I do not know why, but as soon as Stepney was shown on the screen.... Stepney & Son popped up in my head! Too much coffee perhaps? 🤨🤔😉😆😂

[@spiralsturns9835]

Steptoe & Son. Stepney is the name of an engine in Thomas the tank engine

[@knightsofn1]

I know it's not technically a rename, but no mention of South Quay station being the only DLR station I'm aware of to be demolished and rebuilt a bit further down the track?

[@Pesmog]

I am pretty sure Pudding Mill Lane got closed, and moved South, to make room for Crossrail / Elizabeth line?

[@johna5635]

"A heck of a lot of History..." You could pretty much re-name the Channel right there!

[@ukmoshinist4595]

Great! Any chance of a video covering Beckton gasworks & its rail network?🤔

[@brettpalfrey4665]

Maybe one day a DLR station will be renamed to "Jago Hazzard Junction"!

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Custom House for ExCel implies the existence of Beckton Park for PowerPoint...

[@ashbickley]

Anybody remember the DLR gift shop at the old Island Gardens? Loved going there as a kid :) is it enough to get a small video out of ?????????

[@timsully8958]

Well I am astonished how much there was to this subject, but as you rightly say, it is easy to overlook the fact that much of the DLRs raison d’etre was to essentially regenerate an formerly busy area which had its own infrastructure and therefore was ripe for repurposing (albeit a very similar purpose!) 😅 It still seems a bit weird when the trains suddenly duck down and underground at mudchute rather than up and onto the old viaduct! Just shows how quickly things change in the capital though! 🤔 Cheers old fruit, many thanks as ever 🍀🍻👍

[@tinypanther27]

Does Jago have a regular job? Does Jago somehow have 35 hour days unlike all of us?

[@SouthCoastTrains]

You can do the renamed stations paddington-reading and liverpool street-Shenfield section of the Elizebeth line

[@Nosregni]

And he can add Farringdon Street/Farringdon and High Holborn yet again. It must be at least two or three videos since he last mentioned that!

[@teecefamilykent]

Bravo again sir, I must sort you out some beers!

[@timp3224]

Jago, In a future video you cold explore the fact there have never been any international trains from Stratford International!

[@shawnli4746]

He already did a video on that ;)

[@Jimyjames73]

A lot of closed Stations then, also @9:15 I have a Model Steam Loco (a 4-6-0 Loco) Called 'West Ham United No. 61672 from the 'East Coast Express' Train set - Just thought you might like to know!!! 😉🚂🚂🚂

[@highpath4776]

One of the "Football" class of naming one of the train company went through

[@Jimyjames73]

@@highpath4776 Ok 🙂🚂🚂🚂

[@barrydysert2974]

DLR = Delightful Lite Rail? !:-) 💜🙏⚡️

[@roderickjoyce6716]

TBH although it's a fascinating system I'd prefer a tram network

[@manicmechanic448]

Is there a "Face of Bow"?

[@qaphqa]

Types even more nefarious than corporations and governments?!? Now there's a frightening notion.

[@castletown999]

Off topic, but: With the recent floods in London, what stops ht the underground from completely filling up with water?

[@highpath4776]

big doors with seals on them

[@danteshydratshirt2360]

good question

[@highpath4776]

Stratford International might be new but were there staff halts for the GER Works in that locality (some had names)

[@rolandayers6726]

Using the DLR for the first time, those sliding doors on the platform, perfectly lining-up with the carriage doors seemed like the future. Obviously a great safety feature, yet they haven't spread throughout the DLR, let alone anywhere else. Is the technology prohibitively expensive?

[@deanc2k468]

they are on the jubilee extension, not sure where they are on the DLR.

[@scythal]

They would require the trains to know where to stop... given the state of the Tube trains currently, it would take decades for that to be fully possible (unless the entire network replaced its trains all at once)

[@RJSRdg]

Also now used on the central section of the Elizabeth Line.

[@sam19967]

Poplar used to be a popular name for a train station

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

Didn't North Greenwich once form part of the Borough of Grenwich, despite being on the wrong side of the Thames?

[@Tevildo]

No, it was always part of the (historic) Borough of Poplar. You're probably thinking of North Woolwich, which was part of the Borough of Woolwich (and the County of Kent, rather than Essex) from approximately 800 AD until 1965.

[@glynwelshkarelian3489]

@@Tevildo Thank you. It is exactly where I should have been thinking of. I should have gone and rewatched Jay Foreman's 'Why does London have 32 boroughs?' where he shows it on a map. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpLIc2dsj5mZoNU

[@highpath4776]

@@glynwelshkarelian3489 Back at North Woolwich i didnt realise the Kent part included bits of Beckton too. !

[@therry43]

Very intressting - thanks for sharing

[@highpath4776]

Are we sure its St George's East. The Church is Called St George In the East. (why ? which St George is it differentiating itself from ?) , and it is in Cannon Street Road ( which is named ? why again , what Cannon, what Street and where ?)

[@Tevildo]

The "in the East" was to differentiate it from the church of St George the Martyr in Southwark. "Cannon" is derived, at a very long remove, from "Candlewright", that is, someone who makes candles. I'd guess that Cannon St Road is named after the station, although there's no physical connection between them. (Compare Great Western Road (W9), which is a similar distance from Paddington).

[@roderickmain9697]

Theres a case for "Stratford International" to be renamed given that its never had any international trains stop at it. On the other hand, if it became a through stop from say Glasgow/Edinburgh to Paris, Brussels et al it may become the "London" stop on the route. The track connections exist - I suspect the will and/or the business case doesnt.

[@henrybest4057]

The problem is that both Stratford International and any of the connected stations (eg Glasgow/Edinburgh and intermediate stops) would need UK customs and border controls.

[@roderickmain9697]

@@henrybest4057 Good point

[@highpath4776]

@@henrybest4057 Waiting for Scots Independence

[@steinarjonsson_]

It would be nice to have a progress bar during the advertisement. Just saying... Apart from that, I think your content is great.

[@ThermoMan]

Hooting at the various names of Stratford High Street here

[@rwm2986]

Thanks for another interesting video. However, calamity - I was following your narrative on the TfL map and for the first time I realised that 'North Greenwich' has been moved from North of the river to South of the river. How on earth did that happen?

[@highpath4776]

North Greenwich (In the Greenwich Peninsular) is indeed south of the river ( cannot recall if the but opposite ever was a bit of Kent as being so referred to. North Woolwich is North of Woolwich and is indeed north of the river

[@rwm2986]

Liberally copied from that unimpeachable source Wikipedia - North Greenwich was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway, named after the North Greenwich area of the Isle of Dogs in London. It was located on the north side of the River Thames near Island Gardens in the east of the city.

[@highpath4776]

@@rwm2986 Which sort of means the present Dome location station should be Greenwich (North)

[@wrestlcub]

I don't understand how some stations seem to have left-hand running and some have right-hand running. I thought all UK railways had left-hand running?

[@Nosregni]

At complicated junctions with lots of tracks, left-hand running on one route can sometimes look like right-hand running on another. e.g. At 4:55 you’re actually seeing two parallel left-hand tracks, with the matching right-hand ones out of shot to the, uh, right.

[@alexhamilton6188]

Tidal Basin used to be between Canning Town and Royal Victoria

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

Goes to show: the DLR is pretty diverse. Rather surprisingly. :) [For the sake of the public viewer, I'm posting my older comment from under the Patreon version of this video here too.]

[@PupRiku]

I was at Tower Gateway multiple times on the day this video got uploaded...it's strange. Considering I'd never passed it before :')