Tower gateway shuts in dlr revamp

By John Hill on June 16, 2008 1:51 PM |

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TOWER Gateway station will close at the end of this month as part of a major expansion of the Docklands Light Railway network.

The western terminus will be demolished this summer to make way for a new station designed for new three-car trains, as revealed in The Wharf in October.

The move is part of a three-year facelift for the network, which will also see work take place on the Lewisham to Mudchute line for eight weeks later this month, and a month-long closure of Bank station at Christmas 2009.

Tower Gateway station will shut on June 28, and will not open again until February 2009. DLR are not planning to arrange replacement bus services due to the large number of alternative transport links around the area.

A DLR spokesman confirmed the service between Lewisham and Mudchute would be reduced to every ten minutes from June 28 to August 23 due to lane works. Four replacement bus services will run during this time, including a route between Island Gardens to Canary Wharf.

The company has confirmed it will not be using Saunders Ness Road following complaints by residents about disruption by buses. Locals staged middle-of-the-road picnics earlier this year to block buses using the residential street, causing buses to back up to Canary Wharf. DLR are trialling a new route which will loop round the bottom of the Island using Westferry Road and Manchester Road.

More information to come on www.wharf.co.uk