Heron Quays DLR station

Heron Quays is a light metro station on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Bank to Lewisham Line in the Heron Quays area of Canary Wharf in East London. The station is situated on the Isle of Dogs and serves the southern part of the Canary Wharf office complex and is directly connected to the Jubilee Place underground shopping centre. The station is elevated and contained within one of the complex's office towers. It has an out of station interchange (OSI) for Canary Wharf Underground station on London Underground's Jubilee line. Through ticketing is allowed between both stations.

Heron Quays
Heron Quays Location of Heron Quays in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Location	Heron Quays, Canary Wharf
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	Docklands Light Railway
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes[1]
Fare zone	2
OSI	Canary Wharf [2]
DLR annual boardings and alightings
2019	8.151 million[3]
2020	2.309 million[4]
2021	3.858 million[5]
2022	5.270 million[6]
2023	5.940 million[7]
Railway companies
Original company	Docklands Light Railway
Key dates
31 August 1987	Opened
2001	Closed for rebuilding during construction works at Canary Wharf
18 December 2002	Re-opened
Other information
Coordinates	51.5028°N 0.0213°W / 51.5028; -0.0213
London transport portal

The station is in Travelcard Zone 2, and is on the Lewisham branch of the Docklands Light Railway, between Canary Wharf and South Quay.

History

Originally open-air, the station was reconstructed in 2001-2002 (to fit inside a new high-rise development by Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers).^[8] Longer platforms were built to accommodate three-unit trains planned as part of the DLR Capacity Enhancement. Designed by Alsop Architects, the station re-opened on 18 December 2002.^[8][9]

Services

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour from Heron Quays is:^[10]

• 12 tph to Bank
• 12 tph to Lewisham

Additional services call at the station during the peak hours, increasing the service to up to 22 tph in each direction, with up to 8 tph during the peak hours running to and from Stratford instead of Bank.

Preceding station		DLR		Following station
Canary Wharf towards Bank or Stratford		Docklands Light Railway		South Quay towards Lewisham

Connections

London Buses routes 135, D3, D8 and night route N550 serve the station.^[11]

References

1. "Step free Tube Guide" (PDF). Transport for London. April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 May 2021.
2. "Out-of-Station Interchanges" (Microsoft Excel). Transport for London. 2 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
3. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2019. Transport for London. 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
4. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2020. Transport for London. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
5. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2021. Transport for London. 12 July 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
6. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2022. Transport for London. 4 October 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2023.
7. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport for London. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
8. "Docklands Light Railway – Press Room – New state of the art DLR station at Heron Quays opens". Transport for London. 19 December 2002. Archived from the original on 6 November 2004.
9. "Heron Quays – aLL Design International Architects". aLL Design. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
10. "DLR train timetables". Transport for London. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
11. "Buses from Canary Wharf" (PDF). Transport for London. 31 August 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2019.

External links

• DLR Capacity Enhancement Archived 11 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine
• More photographs of Heron Quays station