Millwall tube station
Millwall | |
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Location | Millwall |
Owner | Never built |
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Original company | Jubilee line |
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Millwall was an authorised underground railway station planned by London Underground but never built. It was to be located in Millwall on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of the Jubilee line to Woolwich Arsenal.
Plan
Plans for a new underground line connecting north-west and south-east London via the
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 and included Millwall station. It would have been between Surrey Docks North and North Greenwich.[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 across the Isle of Dogs and a station was opened at Canary Wharf.[4]
References
- ^ Horne 2000, p. 36.
- ^ Horne 2000, p. 45.
- ^ a b c Horne 2000, pp. 50–52.
- ^ Horne 2000, p. 57.
Bibliography
- Horne, Mike (2000). The Jubilee Line. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-220-8.
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Preceding station | London Underground | Following station | ||
Surrey Docks North towards Stanmore
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Jubilee line Phase 3 (1980) (never constructed)
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North Greenwich towards Woolwich Arsenal or Beckton
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