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Taken late August 1965 from the leading end of a Diesel Multiple Unit. At that time there were three platforms available and the signal box was in use. Taken on 35mm slide film - scan put through 'Photoshop' to remove colour cast.

A suburban diesel multiple unit arriving at North Woolwich station in 1985, shortly before the line was electrified. The North Woolwich branch closed in 2006. Part of the route has been reused by the Docklands Light Railway, between Canning Town and Stratford. Another section of the route, a tunnel beneath the Royal Docks, is being reused by Crossrail which will be a new east-west rail route across London. At North Woolwich, however, the route will not be reused by railway trains. More information about North Woolwich station is on the Disused Stations website: http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/n/north_woolwich/index.shtml

Silverlink electric unit 313 116, named "Nikola Tesla", stands at North Woolwich forming a North London Line service to Richmond. This was the last day of operation before the line from Stratford to North Woolwich closed, hence the significant number of railway enthusiasts on the platform. The Stratford to Canning Town section of the line was incorporated into the Docklands Light Railway, whose King George V line (opened the previous year) effectively replaced the remainder of the route. More recently, part of the formation between Canning Town and North Woolwich has been reused for Crossrail.

In December 2005, the Docklands Light Railway was extended to this new station in North Woolwich. In 2007, further extension will take the DLR under the Thames to Woolwich Arsenal station where there will be interchange with the main line

Seen on the last day before the station closed.

View southward to the buffer-stops: ex-GER terminus of the line from Stratford etc., which eventually closed 10/12/06 after conversion of most of it to the Woolwich branch of the Docklands Light Railway. The Museum closed in 2008.

Electric unit 303 101 has just arrived at this terminus from Richmond via the North London line. North Woolwich only has, at best, a half-hourly service, so if you have just missed a train it is probably best to undertake the five-minute walk to the new King George V station of the Docklands Light Railway, where services are much more frequent.

View north, with ex-GER, LNER class Y5 0-4-0T no. 7230 -> 8081, 'Coffee Pot' (built 1903) withdrawn 4/48, preserved here - until 2008, now at a site near Lydney. [?].

This seat bearing the GER monogram was still in use in 1979 at North Woolwich station, by which time it must have been at least 66 years old, as the GER identity was lost in 1923.

This shows one of the ex-Southern Region '2-EPB' units which were working the Richmond to North Woolwich services at that time. For service here, the units had been fitted with small destination indicators, and also with window bars because of the limited clearance in Hampstead Tunnel. Eventually these units were replaced by Class 313 units, but now, North Woolwich station is closed and passengers make use of the nearby King George V station on the Docklands Light Railway.