Beckton railway station
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| Beckton | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Beckton |
| History | |
| Opened by | Eastern Counties Railway |
| Platforms | |
| Key dates | Opened 1874 Closed 1940 |
| Replaced by | Beckton DLR |
Beckton railway station was a railway station in Beckton, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. It originally opened in 1874 and was owned by the Gas Lighting and Coke Company, to serve the recently-built gasworks in Beckton. In turn, they leased the line to the Great Eastern Railway, who operated trains there.
Beckton was the only station on the Beckton branch of the railway, which left the EC&TJR at Custom House, heading initially east by north-east before levelling out to due east once it crossed what is today the Woolwich Manor Way. The station shut to passengers in 1940 after bombing in the Blitz cut it off from the rest of the network, although the damage was repaired and the branch survived as a working railway well into the 1960s.
Today, most of the line to Beckton has been taken up and is now a public footpath, known as the "Beckton Corridor". A short stretch of the line east of Woolwich Manor Way has been reused as the final part of the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway. Beckton DLR station is located several hundred yards west of Beckton railway station; "eastbound" trains from Gallions Reach loop back round over the old line in the reverse direction, entering the station from the east.
| Disused railway stations of East London |
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EC&TJR: Beckton | Central | Connaught Road | Gallions | Manor Way | North Woolwich | Silvertown ECR/GER: Bishopsgate | Bishopsgate (low level) | Bow Road | Burdett Road | Coborn Road L&BR: Blackwall | Cannon Street Road | Leman Street | Limehouse | Millwall Junction | Millwall Docks NLR: Bow | Broad Street | Old Ford | Poplar | Shoreditch | South Bromley | Victoria Park |
