King George V DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway

Docklands Light Railway

The Docklands Light Railway is an automated light metro or light rail system opened on 31 August 1987 to serve the redeveloped Docklands area of London...

 (DLR) which opened on 2 December 2005 and named after King George V Dock, nearby. The station is in the London Borough of Newham

London Borough of Newham

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 and is located in Travelcard Zone 3

Travelcard Zone 3

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. Station and on-train announcements refer to the station as 'King George the Fifth'.

History

The station opened on 2 December 2005. Until January 2009, it served as a temporary terminus for the King George V branch of DLR but the line has since been extended under the River Thames

River Thames

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 to Woolwich Arsenal

Woolwich Arsenal railway station

Woolwich Arsenal station is a National Rail and Docklands Light Railway interchange station located in Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich. It acts as a local station on the North Kent Line between London and Gillingham, served by Southeastern, and is the southern terminus of the Woolwich...

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Location

The station is located at the northern end of Pier Road in North Woolwich. It is located within walking distance of the Woolwich Ferry

Woolwich Ferry

The Woolwich Free Ferry is a boat service across the River Thames, London, UK, which is licensed and financed by London River Services, the maritime arm of Transport for London...

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Services

Trains run every 10 minutes to Bank in the City of London, and with the same frequency to Woolwich Arsenal. Journey time is 9 minutes to Canning Town

Canning Town station

Canning Town station is an inter-modal transport interchange in Canning Town, northeast London, England. It is served by the London Underground Jubilee line, the Docklands Light Railway and local buses operated for London Buses. It is in Travelcard Zone 3...

 to interchange with the Beckton

Beckton DLR station

Beckton DLR station is the eastern terminus of the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway in the Docklands area of east London. It is located in Travelcard Zone 3. The DLR branch from Poplar was opened on 28 March 1994...

 branch of the DLR, 14 minutes to Poplar

Poplar DLR station

Poplar is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in Travelcard Zone 2. It is served by three of the six regular routes on the DLR making it one of the busiest stations on the network in terms of services.-History:Long before the opening of the DLR in 1987, there had been three stations with the...

 to interchange with the Stratford

Stratford station

Stratford station is a large multilevel railway station in Stratford, east London. The station is served by the National Rail services National Express East Anglia, London Overground and c2c, by London Underground's Central and Jubilee lines, and by the Docklands Light Railway . Stratford is in...

 and Lewisham

Lewisham station

Lewisham station is a National Rail and Docklands Light Railway station in Lewisham, south east London. It is on the south-east London commuter rail network operated by Southeastern. The Docklands Light Railway station opened in 1999 on a southward extension from Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs...

 branches of the DLR and 24 minutes to Bank in the City of London

City of London

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. In peak hours, a Canning Town-Woolwich Arsenal shuttle gives a combined service interval of five minutes.

External links

• http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.5009&lon=0.0589&scale=10000&icon=xStreet map of King George V DLR station from multimap.com
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• Docklands Light Railway website - King George V station page