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Beckton was an authorised railway station planned by London Underground but never built. It was to be located in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham, in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of the Jubilee line. It would have been the terminus of a branch from Custom House adjacent to a planned depot for the line.

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Plan

Plans for a new underground line connecting north-west and south-east London via the West End and the City of London were first considered in the 1930s. They were developed during the 1950s and 1960s until a plan for the Fleet line established a route to Lewisham in 1965 with permission to build the first phase to Charing Cross granted in 1969 with the second and third phases approved in 1971 and 1972. [1]

Phase 1 opened as the Jubilee line in 1979, [2] but uncertainty as to the appropriate eastern destination of the line and shortage of funds meant that the remaining works were never begun. [3] An alternative route for Phase 3 was planned and approved in 1980 that followed a more northern alignment to Woolwich Arsenal with a branch from Custom House to Beckton. [3] The line from Custom House would have followed the disused route of the Great Eastern Railway's Beckton branch. [3]

Although preparatory works were carried out for Phase 2, neither it nor either of the Phase 3 routes were constructed. [3] When, in the 1990s, the Jubilee line extension to Stratford was constructed, it followed a different route. [4] Docklands Light Railway services between Custom House and Beckton follow a route along the north side of Royal Albert Dock.

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References

  1. ↑ Horne 2000, p. 36.
  2. ↑ Horne 2000, p. 45.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Horne 2000, pp. 50–52.
  4. ↑ Horne 2000, p. 57.

Bibliography

  • Horne, Mike (2000). The Jubilee Line. Capital Transport. ISBN   1-85414-220-8.
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