Devons Road is a road in the East End of London, UK. Part of the B140 road, it gives its name to the Devons Road DLR station

Devons Road DLR station

Devons Road station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in east London, serving Bromley-by-Bow to the north and Poplar to the south and west...

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Motive power depots

The North London Railway

North London Railway

The North London Railway was a railway company that opened lines connecting the north of London to the East and West India Docks. The main east to west route is now part the North London Line. Other lines operated by the company fell into disuse, but were later revived as part of the Docklands...

 established a large motive power depot

Motive power depot

Motive power depot, usually abbreviated to MPD, is a name given to places where locomotives are stored when not being used, and also repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds", or, for short, just sheds. Facilities are provided for refuelling and...

 at Bow around 1850, which was demolished in 1882 and incorporated into Bow railway works

Bow railway works

Bow railway works was at Bow, an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was built in 1853 by the North London Railway....

. Two larger locomotive depots were then built at Devons Road nearby.

Devons Road No.1 shed

This was badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War. It was rebuilt in 1946 by the
London Midland and Scottish Railway, and then converted into the first UK diesel maintenance depot by British Railways in 1958. It was closed in 1964 and demolished.

Devons Road No.2 shed

It was closed by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, in 1935 and demolished.

Stroudley Walk

The closure of Devons Road Number 1 shed by British Railways in the 1960s freed up the land for development as social housing, this led to a new street layout with streets and buildings named in honour of Britains railway heritage. As a result the North end of Devons Road, adjoining Bow Road

Bow Road

Bow Road is a thoroughfare in Bow, Tower Hamlets, London, England. The road forms part of the A11, running from Aldgate to Norwich in Norfolk. To the west the road becomes Mile End Road, and to the east at the Bow Interchange roundabout, there is a junction with the A12.The College of Technology...

, was changed into a pedestrian area and renamed Stroudley Walk in honour of the great locomotive engineer William Stroudley

William Stroudley

William Stroudley was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers of the nineteenth century, working principally for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway...

. that section is now being redeveloped by Poplar HARCA

Poplar HARCA

Poplar HARCA is a housing association in the East End of London, England. It is the landlord of about 8,500 homes in the Poplar area, a quarter of which have been sold leasehold; the remainder are let on assured tenancies at subsidised rent levels.The association focuses on community regeneration...

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St Andrew's Hospital

The Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum was established in Devons Road in 1868. This institution was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921, after a nearby church that was destroyed in the First World War. It housed a School of Nursing from 1875 to 1991. All its functions were eventually transferred to NHS facilities in Newham, and it was demolished in 2008. the site is being redeveloped as housing including a smaller health centre.