North Greenwich was a railway station in Millwall

Millwall

Millwall is an area in London, on the western side of the Isle of Dogs, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the south of the developments at West India Docks, including Canary Wharf.-History:...

, east London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

. It was located on the north side of the River Thames

River Thames

The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...

 near Island Gardens

Island Gardens

Island Gardens is a public park located at the southern end of the Isle of Dogs—hence the name 'Island'—in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets on the north bank of the River Thames...

, and is not to be confused with the modern-day North Greenwich tube station

North Greenwich tube station

North Greenwich is a station on London Underground's Jubilee Line, opened on 14 May 1999.Despite its name, North Greenwich is not in the area historically known as North Greenwich, on the Isle of Dogs, north of the river; an entirely different station used to be there, between 1872 and 1926...

, which is located on the south side of the river, a mile downstream on the Greenwich Peninsula

Greenwich Peninsula

Greenwich Peninsula is an area of South London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.The peninsula is bounded on three sides by a loop of the Thames, between the Isle of Dogs and Silvertown. To the south is the rest of Greenwich, to the south-east is Charlton.The peninsula lies...

, near the Millennium Dome

Millennium Dome

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.

It was the terminus of the Millwall Extension Railway (MER) branch of the London and Blackwall Railway

London and Blackwall Railway

Originally called the Commercial Railway, the London and Blackwall Railway was a railway line in east London, England. It ran from the Minories to Blackwall via Stepney, with a branch line to the Isle of Dogs, thus connecting central London to many of London's docks in the 19th and 20th centuries...

; Millwall Docks

Millwall Docks railway station

Milwall Docks railway station was a railway station located in Millwall, Isle of Dogs, London. It was located between South Dock and North Greenwich on the Millwall Extension Railway branch of the London and Blackwall Railway...

 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

Greenwich foot tunnel

The Greenwich foot tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London, linking Greenwich in the south with the Isle of Dogs to the north...

, linking it to Greenwich

Greenwich

Greenwich is a district of south London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time...

 town centre south of the river.

Traffic at the station was always light and, as with the rest of the MER extension, it closed to passenger service in 1926 though goods transport 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

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) between Island Gardens

Island Gardens DLR station

Island Gardens DLR station is a Docklands Light Railway station on the Isle of Dogs, just north of the River Thames. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.The station is close to the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs and the River Thames...

 and South Quay

South Quay DLR station

South Quay is a Docklands Light Railway station on the Isle of Dogs, in London. It is between Crossharbour and Heron Quays stations and is in Travelcard Zone 2....

 reuses the old MER route. The original Island Gardens DLR station (at that time its southern terminus) was built on the north end of the North Greenwich station site when the DLR opened in 1987. When the DLR was extended to 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...

in the 1990s a new Island Gardens DLR station was built 100m away and the former site was demolished and replaced by a block of flats.