South Quay (ZSQ)

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Type: Transport for London
(Docklands Light Railway)
Station code: ZSQ
Opened: 1987
South Quay is a DLR station in Canary Wharf and one of the original stations built in phase 1 of construction. The station opened in 1987 and is situated between Heron Quays and Crossharbour.

Because of sharp curves at either end of the station expansion to allow for 3-car trains meant the station had to be moved. The new (and current) station is 125m to the East of the original and opened in 2009.

The original station was damaged in the 1996 IRA Docklands bombing, the truck bomb being just 70m when it detonated causing devastation to the Canary Wharf area. The station was only closed for a few weeks however. A plaque commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack is now at the station.
A B07 DLR train at South Quay

Devil's Bridge / Pontarfynach (DVB)

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Type: Preserved Railway (Vale of Rheidol)
Station code: DVB
Opened: 1902
Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach in Welsh) is the terminus of the Vale of Rheidol railway, a 603mm narrow gauge that runs from Aberystwyth. The station, which is over 200m above sea level, was opened along with the rest of the line for freight first and later passengers in 1902 [1].

The line was opened as the Vale of Rheidol Light Railway and was later taken over by Cambrian Railways, Great Western Railways and British Railways. The line remained part of BR until privatisation in 1989 and indeed the steam locomotives that operate on the line were the last British Rail owned steam locomotives (some even carrying the double arrow for a time!)

Devil's Bridge has a small station building (which is still the original) and a nearby shop/cafe. As its a terminus there is a run around loop and a small engine shed. A goods siding and shed were out of use by the 1940s and were later removed.
Bilingual station name sign

View of the station from a nearby bridge

The engine prepares to run around the train

[1] Vic Mitchell, Corris and Vale of Rheidol (Middleton Press, 2009) p. 6

Warren Street (ZWS)

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Type: Transport for London (Northern &
Victoria Lines)
Station code: ZWS
Opened: 1907
Warren Street is a tube station on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line and the Victoria Line. The station was opened as Euston Road by the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway in 1907 though the name was changed to Warren Street within a year. However the original name is still written in tiles on the Northern Line platforms.

The Victoria Line platforms opened in 1968 and as with all stations on the line the platforms have a tiled motif to aid passenger identification [1]. In Warren Street the motif is a maze (or warren). Warren Street is a typically busy Zone 1 station with nearly 20 million passengers a year, the Victoria Line - Northern Line interchange is one of the busiest on the whole Underground network [2].
A Victoria Line 2009ts train departs

Tiled motif on the Victoria Line platform

[1] Chris Heaps, BR Diary 1968-1977 (Ian Allan, 1988) p. 13
[2] John Scott Morgan, London Underground in Colour since 1955 (Ian Allan, 2013) p. 67

Ryde St. Johns Road (RYR)

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Type: National Rail (Island Line)
Station code: RYR
Opened: 1864
Ryde St. Johns Road is the headquarters of the Island Line on the Isle of Wight and also home to the line's depot. When the station was opened in 1864 by the Isle of Wight Railway (as Ryde station) it was their Northern terminus with passengers who needed to get to the pier taking a horse tram. The line was extended up to the pier in 1880.

Ryde St. Johns Road has 3 platforms but typically only 2 are in use with the main building on Platform 1. Platforms 2 and 3 are on an island platform with just a few shelters. Access between the platforms is via a footbridge. The Island Line's depot is next to the station as is the only remaining signalbox on the line [1]. It is possible the Isle of Wight Steam Railway could extend their services from Smallbrook Junction to Ryde St Johns Road though there are no firm plans at the moment.
483 004 departs heading for Shanklin

View South from the footbridge, the line's remaining signalbox on the right

The footbridge and trains at the depot

Ryde depot

Main station building

[1] R.J. Maycock & R. Silsbury, The Isle of Wight Railways from 1923 inwards (Oakwood Press, 2006) p. 239

Imperial Wharf (IMW)

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Type: National Rail (West London Line)
Station code: IWM
Opened: 2009
Imperial Wharf is a fairly recent addition to the London railway scene, the station was opened in 2009 between West Brompton and Clapham Junction and serves Chelsea, especially Chelsea Dock which is close by. Originally the station was going to be called Chelsea Dock but in the end the station took its name from the redeveloped brown field site next to it which now has hundreds of luxury flats on it.

The station is just North of the Thames and is served by London Overground and Southern. The station is elevated and is accessible via lifts or stairs from a ground floor ticket office.
LO 378 223 calls at the station

A Class 66 hauled freight passes through and is about to cross the Thames.