North Greenwich railway station

North Greenwich was a railway station in Millwall, east London. It was located on the north side of the River Thames near Island Gardens, and is not to be confused with the modern-day North Greenwich tube station, which is located on the south side of the river, a mile downstream on the Greenwich Peninsula, near the Millennium Dome.^[1]

It was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway; Millwall Docks was the next station along. It opened on 29 July 1872 (slightly later than the other stations on the branch) as North Greenwich and Cubitt Town and connected with the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, linking it to Greenwich town centre south of the river.

Traffic at the station was always light and, as with the rest of the MER extension, it closed to passenger service in 1926 though goods transport continued until the docks closed in the 1970s. The area was heavily redeveloped following the Docklands developments of the 1980s, and most of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) between Island Gardens and South Quay reuses the old MER route. The original Island Gardens DLR station (at that time its southern terminus) was built on the north end of the North Greenwich station site when the DLR opened in 1987. When the DLR was extended to Lewisham in the 1990s a new Island Gardens DLR station was built 100m away and the former site was demolished and replaced by a block of flats.

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