Increased services for Docklands Light Railway routes
- More trains to run between Stratford and Canary Wharf, boosting capacity by 20 per cent
- Increased Saturday evening service between Bank and Lewisham
- Part of a three-year series of improvements to increase frequency across the whole DLR network
Docklands
Light Railway (DLR) customers are benefitting from an increase in
services after extra trains were added to a number of the routes
from the 23rd August.
The
changes follows improvements made earlier this year to make services
faster and more frequent across large parts of the network, and form
part of a series of work over the next three years that will see a more
frequent service across the whole DLR network.
The new services include:
- A third more trains between Stratford and Lewisham during the Monday to Friday morning peak. This will mean a train every four minutes between Stratford and Canary Wharf;
- Increased frequency between Stratford and Canary Wharf during Monday to Friday off-peak periods. This will boost capacity by 20 per cent, an additional 1,100 customers an hour;
- Twice as many weekend trains between Stratford and Canary Wharf from 08:30-22:00 on Saturday and 10:30-19:30 on Sunday;
- Twice as many trains between Bank and Lewisham on Saturdays between 19:30-22:00.
A
new seating layout to increase the space available inside DLR trains is
also being introduced, making it easier for customers to board. Between
now and the end of 2015, more than one third of DLR trains are being
converted to have seating along the sides of the carriage to make it
even easier to move between the seats. Despite the change in appearance,
the converted cars will have exactly the same number of seats as
before.
Transport
for London’s Director of the DLR, Rory O’Neill, said: “The DLR has been
an integral part of the regeneration of the Docklands and south east
London since it started operating back in 1987. Today we carry over 100
million passengers a year and that figure is set to rise. We have been
making improvements to the service and will continue to do so over the
next few years to help meet growing demand as London’s population
continues to rise.”
With the planned strikes on the London Underground placed on hold for the time being, John Scragg has provided Focus Transport with a fine selection of bus replacement images from the last one back in August. They are now in an album and can be viewed by clicking here
