I was once in the front seat but 3 stops later a woman came along to my side of the front and said to me "Sorry I have to operate the train from here" I have never been able to get the front seat since
My friend uses the DLR to get home from work and he wears a uniform he once sat in the front seat of the DLR and two tourists freaked out after he got off the train because they thought he was the driver and left them inside they freaked out more when it started to move and he tried his best not to laugh at them
When i was like 7, I sat on the front of the DLR and a worker opened the control box and let me open and close the doors at the station. 10 years and I still remember it.
I was a member of the engineering team that built the original DLR. There's an interesting story about the DLR front seat. When the DLR was officially opened in mid-1987, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip boarded a train at the original Island Gardens station and rode in the front seat to the Operations and Maintenance Centre at Poplar, where the opening ceremonies were being held. As the train pulled into Poplar station, one of the Queen's security guards opened one of the train's doors before it came to a full stop. This caused the train's emergency track brakes to activate, and the Queen and Prince were jostled a bit forward in their seats. Fortunately, they did not strike the windscreen.
Did you also know that Mudchute station is the only stop on the Bank to Lewisham DLR where you are NOT reminded to 'take all your belongings with you'. Have a listen next time...
Re sitting at the front pretending to drive: on my first ever trip on the DLR just after it opened I did that, and it felt like we were living in the future. My second ever trip, that bubble burst: there was a problem with the computer control, and they actually had a driver sitting at the front driving the train. There's a panel at the front which opens up and has a complete set of driving controls in there. It felt like all my dreams had died that day.
The DLR has an “upside-down” traction-current-rail / train-shoe interface which gives it greater resilience to winter icing-up than the traditional U.K. third rail system.
I remember watching Geoffrey Marshall on the tube programme back in 2003 episode 24 hours which was the world record for travelling on all the underground line and to all 250 stations I will never forget that episode.
As an Anglo-Maltese mongrel I divide my time between London and Malta. Woolwich Arsenal is my local station... where the terrazzo floor tiles on the DLR platforms and walkways were made, wait for it, in Malta. By a company called Hal Mann. Kind of nice to have a bit of home from home.
The DLR has turned 30 Years Old It has linked East London for that long and I think its a very reliable light metro railway My regular DLR journey is form Langdon Park to Stratford
The DLR is very handy to Get from Bank or Tower Gateway to Beckton or Royal Albert where I travelled to on a really regular basis catching the Main line train down from the East Midlands to St Pancras getting the Tube from King’s X on the Northern Line down to Bank and changing there to catch the DLR changing at Shadwell, or Lime House for DLR services to Beckton Great video Geoff!
You never fail to fascinate me Mr Marshall, just when I think the DLR HAS no secrets you explain them all, by the way 4:50 you big kid! hahahe! Love it, keep them coming I can't get enough of these Railway videos!
I once rode a DLR train, but not in London. They had to sell a bunch of their old rolling stock to Essen Stadtbahn in Germany when they added the tunnel section back in the eighties.
If you stand at the end of Tower Gateway you can see the Fenchurch Street mainline platforms only yards away across the road Watching the elevated sections being built was interesting - built pillars first and then had a machine going across the top of the pillars hauling prefab sections into place
I was on a DLR train once, sat behind couple of elderly ladies from the North American continent. One said to the other, "I can't believe they could have named a station called "Shagwell"!
I have caught a train to Bank from Platform 3 at Mudchute. Only once, in 15 years, but it has happened. Granted, there was a failed train on Platform 2, but still.
I've actually used Platform 1 at Mudchute before, there have sometimes been trains that terminate right then and there since passenger demand for the DLR drops off after Mudchute so they operate fewer trains there
This video would have been even better if you had gone to Essen, Germany and showed some of the old P86 and P89 stock trains running there as streetcars. In the beginning they used to ride with the old DLR livery but now they are all yellow :/
SimonHellinger I've been to Essen and ridden one of the old P.86 units. (I may well have ridden on the same train in London!!). It was still in DLR livery at the time, though I did see some P.89 units already painted yellow.
I remember going DLR when it first started (with my mum), (for a ride around to see what it was like) sadly the welcome pack were not available at the time. :-P BUT we did get to see behind the panels £-D - never seen so many relays switches in one at that time! And they seem to sound alot louder without the covers over them. The attendant (well driver) was controlling the train, as it was still 'under test condition' and calibration etc. You should of seen and heard it when going round bends!!! (anyone else member this?) Nowadays it really smooth and quite. :-(
That cool front seat also exists on Ligne 1 of the Paris Metro. Not so much a front seat as such, there are seats on each side right up to the front window. You get a great view down the line ahead. Specially interesting coming in to Bastille station, the train turns a sharp curve and suddenly you're in a station on a bridge over a canal basin.
The DLR is much less likely to fail to during winter weather with ice and snow. Reason is that unlike other London railways (third and fourth rail systems) the sliding puck-up shoe on the DLR train is upside down facing upwards and makes contact with the UNDERSIDE of the traction current rail which is less likely to be iced up.
Largest all-automatic urban railway! Here in the US ours are small railways called "people movers" and they are usually at airports. Our largest is the Downtown People Mover in Miami.
Just around the back of Tower Gateway : station there’s the remnants of Minories station depot which was the Western Terminus of the London and Blackwell railway, it’s been shut since the 1950s.
another thing that is a secret about the DLR that the onboard train assistant are called the train captain not guards or conductors. these trains are driven on the left hand side so snagging the front left seat is the best seat on the train. I sat on that seat on Sunday after taking a sunset flight on the emirates air line.
Island garden is not the only resited station,if your heading west from westferry of East from Linehouse,look out for this old viaduct which links the DLR to the national rail so instead of going to poplar to stratford,people or trains would take that viaduct As seen on Google maps
I'm a 2019 Watcher. Looking at the East India Meridian Line, Who else would agree that there should be a DLR shuttle between the Eastern hemisphere of East India to the Western hemisphere of North Greenwich? The line would be called just the Meridian Line.
Last time I did the DLR was in 2009 from Woolwich to City airport, on the Sunday went to Bank and there was a driver sat in that chair with the box open driving it in manual mode.
A 'railfan window'! Toronto subways (except the new Rocket models) all have these too. (You're actually just next to the driver, whose booth takes up less than half the car's frontage).
Last time I was in London, I took the DLR from Greenwich. After not finding a ticket machine and having no means of contactless payment (or any idea it was accepted), I just got on, with the intention of getting a ticket on the way back I got a telling-off from my more London- and tube-savvy friend about getting a fine that day XD the more you know
Funny thing is platform 3 at Mudchute has been used for passenger services in the past. Just not very often. Also London City Airport is the only station with a ticket office which is correct in the sense its run by DLR. Stratford, Bank and Canning Town all have ticket offices but are run by LUL
I heard about this ‘sitting at the front of the train’ on the DLR so last week on my first visit to the DLR I walked right to the front of the train and sat down, only for a driver standing behind to shout at me and say “what’re you doing?!” 🤣 Did I do something wrong?!
Script: Hello, were back, were back out on the Railways, this time, in East London, as we do a brand new video, Secrets of the Docklands Light Railway. The Dome structure at the entrance, is an original 1987 feature. But if you walk down to the back of the platforms, then you get... To a secret back entrance, which leads out onto Mantle Street. Were at Limehouse Station, where the DLR connects to the National Railway, there is this little bridge which links the 2 stations together, weirdly, the bridge only connects to the trains going into London, and not the one's leaving. I'm not going to go through the barrier. (DIDN'T WANNA DO ANYMORE XDD)
Yeah, the ticket office was shut when I flew back into London City Airport last April, and I had to use the fiddly machines to get my ticket. Not easy when it involves going into London, across it, and back out again
The situation at limehouse is counterintuitive because you have to get a train there and then a c2c and then you will probably have to get on the tube or a bus from fencurch street
On the scene where it has the beatles song titles on the poster. I dont know if they realise that one song is not highlighted. Where it says "Unfortunatley you are at the wrong Abbey Road, however WE CAN WORK IT OUT and HELP you get back to the correct location". Now the words get back in the sentence is another song title and thats the only one on that poster which has not been highlighted. Maybe you should mention that to them Geoff.
As you don't have to touch in on the DLR at london City and also in your previous video, Secrets of the Victoria Line at Finsbury Park there are no Oyster Barriers means technically you could walk on at City and off at finsbury for a free journey without having to barrier hop as long as you didn't get your card scanned by a person of course.
You missed a spot though - West India Quay station which is not served by southbound Bank to Lewisham trains but served by northbound Lewisham to Bank trains - almost like Mirabeau station of Paris Metro.
Last week I saw a train parked at platform 3 at Mudchute. It was not in service, but confusingly the displays said 'Lewisham' and Lewisham isn't even reachable from platform 3.
I love how they had to build two stations at Canary Wharf and Heron Quays, it literally takes about 30 seconds to get to Heron Quays from Canary Wharf, believe me, I've been on the train that goes on that section.
The reason West India Quay, Canary Wharf and Heron Quay are so close together is that the latter two were originally on isolated quays when the railway was planned. Each quay was supposed to be for relatively low volumes of housing, with the only vehicular access being at their far west end. However by the time the line was ready to open the initial idea for Canary Wharf had changed and a much larger office development emerged, hence Canary wharf opening later than the rest of the original railway
I once got a DLR front seat, I guess now my life is complete.
I was once in the front seat but 3 stops later a woman came along to my side of the front and said to me
"Sorry I have to operate the train from here" I have never been able to get the front seat since
ZLD Smogless :(
ZLD Smogless same as me, and I wanted to visual it
ZLD Smogless was she lying or was she an actual worker who needed to do something
(i know the dlr is automatic)
I got the front seat until Limehouse
My friend uses the DLR to get home from work and he wears a uniform he once sat in the front seat of the DLR and two tourists freaked out after he got off the train because they thought he was the driver and left them inside they freaked out more when it started to move and he tried his best not to laugh at them
Hahahahahah
The world is cruel
Your friend is also cruel to tourists
You just decided my next Halloween activity. lol
How funny!
XD
When i was like 7, I sat on the front of the DLR and a worker opened the control box and let me open and close the doors at the station. 10 years and I still remember it.
You had a good childhood
Perfect childhood, I’m commenting this as of August 2023 ,16 years old, technically in some situations I’m no longer considered a child
@@pwrcaelenxhow did you do in your GCSE
So now you are 23???
@@ROTREVnah 24
I was a member of the engineering team that built the original DLR. There's an interesting story about the DLR front seat. When the DLR was officially opened in mid-1987, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip boarded a train at the original Island Gardens station and rode in the front seat to the Operations and Maintenance Centre at Poplar, where the opening ceremonies were being held. As the train pulled into Poplar station, one of the Queen's security guards opened one of the train's doors before it came to a full stop. This caused the train's emergency track brakes to activate, and the Queen and Prince were jostled a bit forward in their seats. Fortunately, they did not strike the windscreen.
do you know what the DLR trains are made of - metal wise?
Did you also know that Mudchute station is the only stop on the Bank to Lewisham DLR where you are NOT reminded to 'take all your belongings with you'. Have a listen next time...
So I can leave my belongings behind there?
Radioactivechickenishere because of think it has a reversing siding or a quick loop that's why
Radioactivechickenishere yeah XD
It’s not because it does not say that announcement ever
I find it only does it at Greenwich Cutty Sark and a couple of other ones from Lewisham to Stratford, and maybe Canary Wharf
Re sitting at the front pretending to drive: on my first ever trip on the DLR just after it opened I did that, and it felt like we were living in the future. My second ever trip, that bubble burst: there was a problem with the computer control, and they actually had a driver sitting at the front driving the train. There's a panel at the front which opens up and has a complete set of driving controls in there. It felt like all my dreams had died that day.
Most trains usually operated by computer have those contingency manual control panels, just in case.
manual override is limited to 20km/h.
Ben Wheeler doer
Dlr
I'm so sorry to hear about your dreams crushed
Ben 23 i
The DLR has an “upside-down” traction-current-rail / train-shoe interface which gives it greater resilience to winter icing-up than the traditional U.K. third rail system.
Would quite happily watch an hour length episode of each of these (including the Tube ones), shame they're so short! :-D
Watch these 2 channels, plenty to see:
th-cam.com/users/geofftech2 geoff marshall
th-cam.com/users/JagoHazzard jego hazard
City Airport shuts on a Saturday afternoon to give the locals a break from the noise
Geoff Marshall
I remember watching Geoffrey Marshall on the tube programme back in 2003 episode 24 hours which was the world record for travelling on all the underground line and to all 250 stations I will never forget that episode.
As an Anglo-Maltese mongrel I divide my time between London and Malta. Woolwich Arsenal is my local station... where the terrazzo floor tiles on the DLR platforms and walkways were made, wait for it, in Malta. By a company called Hal Mann. Kind of nice to have a bit of home from home.
The DLR has turned 30 Years Old
It has linked East London for that long and I think its a very reliable light metro railway
My regular DLR journey is form Langdon Park to Stratford
1:16 "To this day, it's only used by wankers."
-Jay Foreman
@@adrianatgaming8640 Exactly.
This is stuck in my head whenever I see City Airport 🤣
I dont get it
@@qon_noq6925 Look up Jay Foreman's video on London's airports.
The DLR is very handy to Get from Bank or Tower Gateway to Beckton or Royal Albert where I travelled to on a really regular basis catching the Main line train down from the East Midlands to St Pancras getting the Tube from King’s X on the Northern Line down to Bank and changing there to catch the DLR changing at Shadwell, or Lime House for DLR services to Beckton
Great video Geoff!
You never fail to fascinate me Mr Marshall, just when I think the DLR HAS no secrets you explain them all, by the way 4:50 you big kid! hahahe! Love it, keep them coming I can't get enough of these Railway videos!
I once rode a DLR train, but not in London. They had to sell a bunch of their old rolling stock to Essen Stadtbahn in Germany when they added the tunnel section back in the eighties.
No mention of the really fun roller coaster bit on your way into bank
Bank D.L.R platforms are the second deepest in London at about 136ft below ground level.
@Joseph Stalin angwy
Most of the original 1987 section of the D.L.R was built on the old London & Blackwall railway (1840 - 1926).
1974cfjl Which was apparently cable drawn for part of the distance at one time
thanks Geoff, appreciate your work as always :)
I managed to get the front seat as a child once
Shadow Fan every time i was on the DLR, i got the front seat. Once a whining kid came and told me to give him teh seat. I did not give it up for him.
Weird flex but ok
Guess I am a child
@@buksi6342 that kid deserved it . they will have to wait
Ending = My Childhood xD
+jeffrey2014 - The DLR has always been driverless. Look it up
I'm 19 years old and even at this age I still like to sit right at the front when I take the DLR. Is this worrying?
I'll never grow too old to sit in the 'drivers seat' on an automated train! It's the greatest feature of the DLR!!!!!
CHANNEL SHUT DOWN More like EveryAgeHood
@@petercdowney Nah even Geoff likes it and he's an adult
Great T shirt, now it's time to buy an orange one Geoff!!!!!
***** yeah wear it for the secrets of the overground
Really enjoying these London videos! 😁👍
You just know at some point there's going to be a major fight over who gets the front seat of the train.
If you stand at the end of Tower Gateway you can see the Fenchurch Street mainline platforms only yards away across the road
Watching the elevated sections being built was interesting - built pillars first and then had a machine going across the top of the pillars hauling prefab sections into place
Great video! Can't wait for the London Overground Secrets!
I hope Geoff will tell me some interesting things about Honor Oak Park station (It's my local station).
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He did
I was on a DLR train once, sat behind couple of elderly ladies from the North American continent. One said to the other, "I can't believe they could have named a station called "Shagwell"!
I have caught a train to Bank from Platform 3 at Mudchute. Only once, in 15 years, but it has happened. Granted, there was a failed train on Platform 2, but still.
I've actually used Platform 1 at Mudchute before, there have sometimes been trains that terminate right then and there since passenger demand for the DLR drops off after Mudchute so they operate fewer trains there
I noticed the first letter in each caption would make Docklands
Geoff is clever like that sometimes
This video would have been even better if you had gone to Essen, Germany and showed some of the old P86 and P89 stock trains running there as streetcars. In the beginning they used to ride with the old DLR livery but now they are all yellow :/
SimonHellinger I've been to Essen and ridden one of the old P.86 units. (I may well have ridden on the same train in London!!). It was still in DLR livery at the time, though I did see some P.89 units already painted yellow.
I remember going DLR when it first started (with my mum), (for a ride around to see what it was like) sadly the welcome pack were not available at the time. :-P
BUT we did get to see behind the panels £-D - never seen so many relays switches in one at that time! And they seem to sound alot louder without the covers over them.
The attendant (well driver) was controlling the train, as it was still 'under test condition' and calibration etc.
You should of seen and heard it when going round bends!!! (anyone else member this?)
Nowadays it really smooth and quite. :-(
m2mm4m plus trains use to run every 20 mins or so
Do Secrets of Crossrail when it will be released to the public!
you predicted the future
Release time:NEVER
Just Like BER
Bro listened to the voices
That cool front seat also exists on Ligne 1 of the Paris Metro. Not so much a front seat as such, there are seats on each side right up to the front window. You get a great view down the line ahead. Specially interesting coming in to Bastille station, the train turns a sharp curve and suddenly you're in a station on a bridge over a canal basin.
I go to East India DLR many times because of the data centre. I always wondered what that sundial was for, thanks for finally answering that question!
Favorite secret: the line on the building marking the Greenwich Meridian!
The DLR is much less likely to fail to during winter weather with ice and snow.
Reason is that unlike other London railways (third and fourth rail systems) the sliding puck-up shoe on the DLR train is upside down facing upwards and makes contact with the UNDERSIDE of the traction current rail which is less likely to be iced up.
Plane movements are banned at London City Airport on Saturday afternoons; the Lewisham Extension PFI contract ends next year.
Largest all-automatic urban railway! Here in the US ours are small railways called "people movers" and they are usually at airports. Our largest is the Downtown People Mover in Miami.
Hahaha, sit in the front seat, thats what I always tried when getting on at London City Airport. Ride it quite a few times towards the City :)
the front seat of the dlr is very common in singapore and we always have to compete with the train staff for it but except that there is no seat
Loving the detail of you matching the DLR colourways ☺️
4:06 Who thought the name was Don't Snigger?
EDIT: Useless question
*B A L L S P O N D*
Just around the back of Tower Gateway :
station there’s the remnants of Minories station depot which was the Western Terminus of the London and Blackwell railway, it’s been shut since the 1950s.
4:46 Oh yes!! The first time I went on the DLR, I was thinking "where's the driver?" Until it pulled off by itself lol. Love the front seat
another thing that is a secret about the DLR that the onboard train assistant are called the train captain not guards or conductors. these trains are driven on the left hand side so snagging the front left seat is the best seat on the train. I sat on that seat on Sunday after taking a sunset flight on the emirates air line.
The DLR is a very helpful transportation system
When I was a kid I was on the DLR (1998?) and I swear there were little toy steering wheels at the front to play with
The first Island Garden station was on the site across the road from the viaduct, on the site that now has apartments. Not on the viaduct itself.
And to think that the original DLR trains dating from when the DLR opened in 1987 are still in use over in the city of Essen in Germany.
I know you're the Londonist and all. But as a special episode I think it'd be awesome if you did an episode on the Hamburg U-Bahn or S-Bahn
As you've correctly stated, Londonist is a website/channel about things in London!
Adam Hmobile a video on the old demolished Rothenburgsort line would be interesting
Syed Newaz 6
i agree nikolay
sorry, that comment done by my son (3 years old). he loves your video series.
I like the design of the dlr and the jubilee line extension
Island garden is not the only resited station,if your heading west from westferry of East from Linehouse,look out for this old viaduct which links the DLR to the national rail so instead of going to poplar to stratford,people or trains would take that viaduct
As seen on Google maps
When I was a kid, one of the DLR operator was manually controlling the train and he let me have a go.
I'm a 2019 Watcher. Looking at the East India Meridian Line, Who else would agree that there should be a DLR shuttle between the Eastern hemisphere of East India to the Western hemisphere of North Greenwich? The line would be called just the Meridian Line.
Went on the DLR today and my dreams came true...
Platform 3 at Mudchute now has a service to Stratford. Also used as a siding for faulty trains.
Last time I did the DLR was in 2009 from Woolwich to City airport, on the Sunday went to Bank and there was a driver sat in that chair with the box open driving it in manual mode.
A 'railfan window'! Toronto subways (except the new Rocket models) all have these too. (You're actually just next to the driver, whose booth takes up less than half the car's frontage).
I've only been on the DLR twice now after seeing this video I'm gonna use it more
Geoff you da best. Plus the dlr is my favourite train ever
THE DOCKLANDS LIGHT RAILWAY IS SO COOL!
no it isn't I use it everyday to take trains to Dartford from Greenwich and honestly its horrid
Last time I was in London, I took the DLR from Greenwich. After not finding a ticket machine and having no means of contactless payment (or any idea it was accepted), I just got on, with the intention of getting a ticket on the way back I got a telling-off from my more London- and tube-savvy friend about getting a fine that day XD the more you know
We also didn’t know and tapped in at Poplar
I have been to London and went on the DLR
Funny thing is platform 3 at Mudchute has been used for passenger services in the past. Just not very often. Also London City Airport is the only station with a ticket office which is correct in the sense its run by DLR. Stratford, Bank and Canning Town all have ticket offices but are run by LUL
is really cool how the DLR train begins the switchback at Bank its a pitty that there is not a video of that happening.
I heard about this ‘sitting at the front of the train’ on the DLR so last week on my first visit to the DLR I walked right to the front of the train and sat down, only for a driver standing behind to shout at me and say “what’re you doing?!” 🤣 Did I do something wrong?!
it is so cool when you are at the back
I always head for the back seat, a much better chance of getting it than the front one!
Script:
Hello, were back, were back out on the Railways, this time, in East London, as we do a brand new video, Secrets of the Docklands Light Railway. The Dome structure at the entrance, is an original 1987 feature. But if you walk down to the back of the platforms, then you get... To a secret back entrance, which leads out onto Mantle Street. Were at Limehouse Station, where the DLR connects to the National Railway, there is this little bridge which links the 2 stations together, weirdly, the bridge only connects to the trains going into London, and not the one's leaving. I'm not going to go through the barrier. (DIDN'T WANNA DO ANYMORE XDD)
Londist,can you do a story of the London Underground "East London Line"
Yeah, the ticket office was shut when I flew back into London City Airport last April, and I had to use the fiddly machines to get my ticket. Not easy when it involves going into London, across it, and back out again
The situation at limehouse is counterintuitive because you have to get a train there and then a c2c and then you will probably have to get on the tube or a bus from fencurch street
@2:57 they forgot to highlight "get back" !
I noticed that too. Wanted to write it in a comment but decided to see if someone else beat me to it. Proficiat Marc!
My thoughts exactly
On the scene where it has the beatles song titles on the poster. I dont know if they realise that one song is not highlighted. Where it says "Unfortunatley you are at the wrong Abbey Road, however WE CAN WORK IT OUT and HELP you get back to the correct location". Now the words get back in the sentence is another song title and thats the only one on that poster which has not been highlighted. Maybe you should mention that to them Geoff.
As you don't have to touch in on the DLR at london City and also in your previous video, Secrets of the Victoria Line at Finsbury Park there are no Oyster Barriers means technically you could walk on at City and off at finsbury for a free journey without having to barrier hop as long as you didn't get your card scanned by a person of course.
Amazing
DLR is my favourite train line
Ever
Another brilliant video.
Canning town great view of the DLR and jubilee line
Another great video Geoff!
When my mum first moved to London with me, I had to take the DLR to school. I wish I knew all of this.
I’ve been lucky enough to sound the horn going the wrong way into Canning Town. This was while it was being controlled
The third platform at Mudchute has been used a handful of times
There is also a ticket office in Cutty Sark DLR Greenwich.
Great video once again. I enjoyed this one.
You missed a spot though - West India Quay station which is not served by southbound Bank to Lewisham trains but served by northbound Lewisham to Bank trains - almost like Mirabeau station of Paris Metro.
i fly in and out of city airport on a regular basis and it's the best
Huh, but the London City Airport is really small.
+Xevlon Perç that's why it's so good short ques
LETS CLOSE LONDON CITY AIRPORT
@@DimensionalIO no
Last week I saw a train parked at platform 3 at Mudchute. It was not in service, but confusingly the displays said 'Lewisham' and Lewisham isn't even reachable from platform 3.
I love how they had to build two stations at Canary Wharf and Heron Quays, it literally takes about 30 seconds to get to Heron Quays from Canary Wharf, believe me, I've been on the train that goes on that section.
+SmashBrosGuys2933 the box in which they built canary wharf station is bigger than the titanic
Look, we all been on that section
The reason West India Quay, Canary Wharf and Heron Quay are so close together is that the latter two were originally on isolated quays when the railway was planned. Each quay was supposed to be for relatively low volumes of housing, with the only vehicular access being at their far west end. However by the time the line was ready to open the initial idea for Canary Wharf had changed and a much larger office development emerged, hence Canary wharf opening later than the rest of the original railway
😯 awesome
Front seat! We're on the ride!
If you can please ask TFL
to put a steering wheel at
the front of every DLR
train. To make children’s
wishes come true.
I’ve seen a train on platform 3 at mudchute station!!
DLR is so convenient when I lived near Stratford International!
The front seat going to Bank is quite fun
Hey it's automated just like the Skytrain system here in Vancouver. Can sit in the front as well!
Please cover the Gospel Oak to Barking line electrification..... assuming that they ever finish the job!
That last one is one for my friend there was an old tram he was in the back pretending he was driving it and nearly steped on the bell mutiple times
I would extend the DLR further into Central London via Ludgate Circus, Aldwych, Charing Cross, Green Park and Victoria.
Limehouse is a misnomer it used to be called Stepney East.