Poplar DLR station

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Poplar DLR
Location
Place	Poplar
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Operations
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Platforms in use	4
Annual entry/exit	<no data> million
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1987
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Poplar is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in Travelcard Zone 2. It is a served by four of the five routes of the DLR and as such the busiest station on the network, in terms of services.

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Depot
4 External links

[edit] History

It was opened on 21 August 1987.

Long before then, there had been two stations with the same name, however neither was near the site of the current station:

Poplar railway station was on the London and Blackwall Railway between 8 July 1840 to 4 May 1926. This is now the site of Blackwall DLR station.
Poplar (East India Dock Road) railway station on the North London Railway was in use until World War II. This is now the site of All Saints DLR station.

The location of these two stations can be seen in the bottom-right hand corner of the Map of Poplar, 1885, referred to under External links.

[edit] Destinations

It serves a junction in four directions:

Eastbound towards Beckton, London City Airport and King George V
Northbound to Stratford
Southbound to the Isle of Dogs and Lewisham
Westbound to Bank and Tower Gateway.

To the west the next station is Westferry, to the south is West India Quay, on the Stratford branch it is All Saints and to Beckton and Woolwich (via King George V station) Blackwall.

[edit] Depot

The central depot for the DLR next to Poplar station. It is accessed through a pair of tracks just east of Poplar. This features the tightest curves in operation on the railway.