Canary Wharf DLR station
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Canary Wharf DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in London, England. It serves the Canary Wharf office complex, and is built into the base of 1 Canada Square between two parts of a shopping centre. The station itself has six platforms serving three rail tracks, and is sheltered by a distinctive elliptical glass roof.
The station is located on the DLR between Heron Quays station and West India Quay station, and is in Travelcard Zone 2. The station is shown on the Tube map as being an interchange with Canary Wharf tube station, but is situated some distance from the tube station with a choice of sign-posted routes through either the shopping malls under the office complex or on the street. Interchanging between Heron Quays DLR station and Canary Wharf tube station is possibly shorter and more straight-forward.
Canary Wharf station had been part of the original DLR plans, but when the system opened in August 1987 the station was not ready. It was originally planned that the station would be similar to the original Heron Quays DLR station, with two small platforms either side of the tracks. It soon became apparent that the Canary Wharf development would produce demand well above what such a simple station could accommodate. On the 17th July 1987 (over a month before the DLR opened to the public) a contract was awarded to GEC-Mowlem Railway Group to rebuild the station into the considerably more elaborate and spacious design that exists today, which opened in November 1991.