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Docklands Light Railway June 22, 2004

Posted by Andy Roberts in : London, movie clips, transport , trackback

DLR movie 1

I quite like the Docklands Light Railway for the way it gets me to Greenwich from Stratford without a driver. There is sometimes a problem with rocking from side to side so you wouldn’t really want to spend too much time on it regularly, but it strikes me that rather than build a tube line into Hackney, which will take years and years, you could relatively quickly and cheaply just continue extending the DLR all over the place instead.
Being a light railway it can take tight bends and sharp inclines, so the infrastructure is much easier to build. Instead of building tunnels and taking over lots of land you just put up a few stilts and build up above street level.

The strange cartoon on the left is from Transport for London’s bodysnatchers website - a guide of suggested places to go using the DLR. Hmm, I like the sound of Bar Musee.

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1 Comment

Comment by Pete Bradshaw
2004-06-24 19:12:50

I agree with your point in general - the DLR is a wonderful thing- but isn’t the tube line to Hackney largely to follow the old Broad Street to Dalston Junction track formation. The difficult bit is extending immediately past Shoreditch over the Great Eastern lines. And its such a pity that this meant demolishing Bishopsgate Goods Station…

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