Langdon Park DLR station

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Location
Langdon Park
Place
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Operations
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Platforms in use	2 (when complete)
Transport for London
Zone	2
History
Key dates	Opened 2007 (not yet completed)
Transport for London List of London stations: Underground \| National Rail

Langdon Park DLR station is a new station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). This is to be situated between the existing All Saints and Devons Road stations. Construction of the station began on 17 November 2006. [1]

[edit] History and Proposals

Since the start of the Docklands Light Railway, two stations were safeguarded to be used much later when the system was developed. One of these stations was provisionally called Carmen Street.^[1] However, this has changed to Langdon Park. The other station was Pudding Mill Lane.

Proposals for design of Langdon Park were first drawn up in 2000 but due to lack of funding, amongst other things, the scheme was dropped. In May 2000 Leaside Regeneration Limited and Docklands Light Railway Limited (DLRL) jointly funded preliminary feasibility work looking at locations, outline costs and Docklands Light Railway implications of a new station between the existing All Saints and Devon's Road DLR stations. The research indicated that the best and most practical location would be at the pedestrian bridge linking Carmen Street and Bright Street adjacent to Langdon Park itself.

In June 2005, DLRL re-engaged consultants to reassess the scheme costs and design with a view to developing the project for a planning application submission. Following the successful outcome of a bid for funding from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), planning permission was applied for and subsequently granted. Construction is expected to take 13 months so, assuming there are no delays, the station will open in late 2007 as originally intended.

[edit] Design

The current scheme envisages 90m platforms connected by a lightweight transparent replacement bridge link from Carmen Street and Hay Currie Street.

The station will be fully accessible from street level and the bridge will contain two lift shafts at either end to provide connections into the station.