Docklands Railway Light

The Docklands Light Railway is an element of the joint grid system on rail of the London agglomeration . It is a network of ways of air Métro and with automatic control serving the Eastern suburbs, close to the docks of the the Thames.

Material

Train with multiple units, without driving cabin.

Personnel

Even if control is automatic, the DLR employs of the personnel charged to check the good performance of the service.

On train certain, a controller takes seat. Its functions are the control of the transport documents, the advertisements with the passengers (in the event of correspondence with Westferry for Greenwich for example). In the event of strong wind sweeping the air routes in height, this controller can use the orders of edge to control the speed of the train.

Ways

The ways of the DLR are air or in tunnel.

Branches and service roads

In the fields of the subway of London, the DLR appears under only one color of line, but is traversed by various services serving all the branches. Currently, the DLR forms a cross geographically following about the cardinal points.

Connect western

In London, two termini ensure the departures of different services:

Bank, in the City the district of businesses.
Tower Gateway, close to Tower Hill the station serving the Turn of London.

Then, in outskirts of the city:

Shadwell, in correspondence with the line East London of the Underground.
Limehouse, in correspondence with the railroad.
Westferry, place of the first separation of branch.

Connect southern

This branch serves the island of the Dogs ( Isle off Dogs ) and the old docks of the district West India . This zone became a business district with high buildings and some Gratte-ciel. The routing of the many employees of this zone is ensured by seven very brought closer stops sometimes:

West India Quay
Canary Wharf, correspondence with the Jubilee Line of the Underground.
Heron Quays
South Quays
Crossharbour & London Arena
Mudchute
Island Gardens

Then, the line crosses in underground the the Thames and passes on Right Bank:

Cutty Sark : service road of the maritime site of Greenwich declared world heritage by UNESCO.
Greenwich, correspondence with the rail network.
Deptford Bridge
Elverson Road
Lewisham, correspondence with the rail network.

Branch is

Poplar with the crossing of the two axes north and south of the DLR.
Blackwall
East India
Canning Town in correspondence with a London line of the National Rail.
Royal Victoria
Custom House in correspondence with the London line of the National Rail.
Prince regent
Royal Albert
Beckton Park
Cyprus
Galleons Reach
Beckton

A second Eastern branch is in construction to ensure a service road closer to the face of the river and airport of London City.

Connect northern

Starting from Poplar:

All Saints
Let us owe Road
Bow Church, close to Bow Road on the District and Hammersmith & City Line S of the Underground.
Pudding Millet Lane
Stratford, station in correspondence with the Central and Jubilee Line S, and the London line of the National Rail.

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