Blackwall DLR station

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Blackwall
Location
Place	Blackwall
Local authority	Tower Hamlets

Operations
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Platforms in use	2

Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 1994
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Blackwall is a station on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in east London. The station is close to the northern entry to the Blackwall road tunnel under the Thames.

Blackwall station is on the Beckton branch of the DLR between Poplar and East India stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on the 28 March 1994. There was a previous station on the same site, called Poplar station, which was served by the London and Blackwall Railway from July 6, 1840 to May 3, 1926. Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually further east. The location of these two stations on the London and Blackwall Railway can be seen in the bottom-right hand corner of the Map of Poplar, 1885, referred to under External links.