Canary Wharf DLR station

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Location
Place	Canary Wharf
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Operations
Managed by
Platforms in use	4
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1987
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Canary Wharf DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in London, England. Built into the base of One Canada Square, between two parts of a shopping centre, it serves the Canary Wharf office complex. The station itself has six platforms serving three rail tracks, and is sheltered by a distinctive elliptical glass roof.

The station is located on the DLR between Heron Quays station and West India Quay station, in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is shown on the Tube map as being an interchange with Canary Wharf tube station but is situated some distance from the tube station with a choice of sign-posted routes through either the shopping malls under the office complex or on the street. Interchanging between Heron Quays DLR station and Canary Wharf tube station is possibly shorter and more straight forward.

Canary Wharf station had been part of the original DLR plans, but when the system opened in August 1987 the station was not ready. It was originally planned that the station would be similar to the original Heron Quays DLR station, with two small platforms either side of the tracks. It soon became apparent that the Canary Wharf development would produce demand well above the capacity of a simple station. On 17 July 1987 (over a month before the DLR opened to the public) a contract was awarded to GEC-Mowlem Railway Group to rebuild the station into the considerably more elaborate and spacious design that exists today. It was opened in November 1991.

A DLR train leaving Canary Wharf station, heading for Bank

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Preceding station	Underground Lines			Following station
Heron Quays		Docklands Light Railway		West India Quay

Canary Wharf, London
One Canada Square \| HSBC Tower \| Citigroup Centre \| One Churchill Place \| 10 Upper Bank Street \| 40 Bank Street \| 25 Bank Street \| 1 Cabot Square \| 5 Canada Square \| 33 Canada Square \| 10 Cabot Square \| 25 Cabot Square \| 25 North Colonnade \| 20 Canada Square \| 50 Bank Street \| 20 Bank Street \| 20 Cabot Square \| 30 South Colonnade \| 11 Westferry Circus \| 1 Westferry Circus \| 17 Columbus Courtyard \| 20 Columbus Courtyard \| 15 Westferry Circus \| 7 Westferry Circus Transport Links: Canary Wharf DLR \| Canary Wharf Tube \| Canary Wharf Pier \| Heron Quays DLR \| London City Airport \| South Quay DLR

Canary Wharf, London