East India DLR station

East India
East India Location of East India in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Location	Leamouth
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	2 and 3
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2019	3.878 million[2]
2020	1.703 million[3]
2021	2.333 million[4]
2022	3.980 million[5]
2023	4.410 million[6]
Key dates
28 March 1994	Opened
Other information
Coordinates	51.5093°N 0.0021°W / 51.5093; -0.0021
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East India is a station on Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in Leamouth, east London. It takes its name from the nearby former East India Docks of the Port of London, where ships trading with the Indian subcontinent used to dock.

It is on the Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal branches of the DLR, and is in Travelcard Zones 2 and 3. It opened, with the Beckton Branch, on 28 March 1994.

The historic Greenwich Prime Meridian crosses the DLR at the eastern end of the platforms, which is marked by an illuminated blue line underneath the tracks at street level. The modern IERS Reference Meridian used by GPS crosses the tracks approximately 117 metres further east between Neutron Tower and Switch House, but is unmarked.

History

East India station was originally to be named Brunswick Wharf and this name was shown on the 1994 'all projections' map.[7] 'Brunswick' is now a code destination used to indicate that a train in the depot has been cleaned. In February 2001 an episode of the ITV series The Bill featured DLR trains with 'Brunswick' as a dummy destination for filming purposes.

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from East India is:[8]

• 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
Blackwall towards Bank or Tower Gateway		Docklands Light Railway		Canning Town towards Beckton or Woolwich Arsenal

Connections

London Buses route D3 and night route N550 serve the station.[9]

References

1. "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.
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. Mr Beck's Underground map, Garland, K. p 63
8. "DLR train timetables". Transport for London. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
9. "East India Station". TfL. Retrieved 18 May 2020.

External links

• Docklands Light Railway website – East India station page