North Greenwich railway station
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North Greenwich was a railway station in North Greenwich, east London. It was located on the north side of the River Thames near Island Gardens, and is not to be confused with the modern-day North Greenwich tube station, which is located on the south side of the river, a mile downstream on the Greenwich Peninsula, near the Millennium Dome.¹

It was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway; Millwall Docks was the next station along. It opened on 29 July 1872 (slightly later than the other stations on the branch) as North Greenwich and Cubitt Town and connected with the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, linking it to Greenwich town centre south of the river.

Wardle 2-4-0T steam locomotive at N. Greenwich Station, circa 1900

Traffic at the station was always light, and it closed to passenger service in 1926, along with the rest of the MER extension, though goods services continued until the docks closed in the 1970s. The area was heavily redeveloped following the Docklands developments of the 1980s, and most of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) between Island Gardens and South Quay reused the old MER route. The original Island Gardens DLR station (at that time its southern terminus) was built on the site of North Greenwich when the DLR opened in 1987. When the DLR was extended to Lewisham in the 1990s much of the site was obliterated in order to put the line into tunnel.

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Coordinates: 51°29′17″N 0°0′39″W / 51.48806, -0.01083

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