Blackwall DLR station

Blackwall
Blackwall Location of Blackwall in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Location	Blackwall
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes [1]
Fare zone	2
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2019	1.973 million [2]
2020	0.902 million [3]
2021	1.098 million [4]
2022	1.360 million [5]
2023	1.510 million [6]
Railway companies
Original company	Docklands Light Railway
Key dates
28 March 1994	Opened
Other information
Coordinates	51°30′28″N0°00′25″W / 51.5078°N 0.0070°W / 51.5078; -0.0070
London transportportal

Blackwall is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Blackwall, London, England. It is located very close to the northern entrance to the Blackwall road tunnel under the River Thames. The station is between Poplar and East India stations.

The DLR station opened, with the Beckton Branch, on 28 March 1994. There was a previous station very close to this site, called Poplar station, which was served by the London and Blackwall Railway from 6 July 1840 to 3 May 1926. Poplar station was along the route of Aspen Way just to the south and east of the DLR station. Blackwall station on the London and Blackwall Railway was actually farther east, on what is today Jamestown Way. A crossover west of the station allows trains from Beckton and Poplar to reverse here.

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from Blackwall is: ^[7]

• 6 tph to Tower Gateway
• 6 tph to Bank
• 6 tph to Beckton
• 6 tph to Woolwich Arsenal

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours, increasing the service to up to 16 tph in each direction.

Preceding station		DLR		Following station
Poplar towards Bank or Tower Gateway		Docklands Light Railway		East India towards Beckton or Woolwich Arsenal

Connections

London Buses route 15 serves the station. ^[8]

References

1. "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London . April 2025. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 April 2025.
2. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
7. "DLR train timetables". Transport for London. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
8. "Blackwall Station". TfL. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

External links

• Docklands Light Railway website – Blackwall station page
• Map of Poplar, 1885.