Millwall: End of the viaduct.
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Millwall: End of the viaduct.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton Taken: 14 Jun 2012
This viaduct first carried trains in 1872 when the Great Eastern Railway branch to North Greenwich & Cubitt Town was opened. This line was closed by the LNER in 1926, and it seemed as if no more trains would ever run. But in 1987, the new and innovative Docklands Light Railway opened, and made use of the viaduct again to carry its trains to Island Gardens, (which was then an above-ground station). This lasted until 1999, when the Lewisham Extension to the DLR was built, requiring a new low-level alignment, so the viaduct became disused again, a condition in which it seems likely to remain.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.489238
Longitude
-0.013289