Island Gardens DLR station
Island Gardens is a Docklands Light Railway station next to Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs, East London. It is just north of the River Thames and is close to the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs and the River Thames.- Type: Railway station
- Description: Docklands Light Railway station
- Also known as: “Island Gardens”, “Island Gardens DLR Station”, and “ZIG”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cutty Sark and Royal Observatory.
Cutty Sark
Museum
Photo: Krzysztof Belczyński, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. Cutty Sark is situated 1,900 feet south of Island Gardens DLR station.
Royal Observatory
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is an observatory situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. Royal Observatory is situated 1 mile southeast of Island Gardens DLR station.
National Maritime Museum
Museum
Photo: KTC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. National Maritime Museum is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Island Gardens DLR station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burrells Wharf and Cubitt Town.
Burrells Wharf
Neighborhood
Photo: Alctanay, Public domain.
Burrells Wharf is a riverside residential estate, owned by its leaseholders, in London, England. It is situated on the Isle of Dogs and the north bank of the River Thames.
Cubitt Town
Quarter
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cubitt Town is a district on the eastern side of the Isle of Dogs in London, England. This part of the former Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was redeveloped as part of the Port of London in the 1840s and 1850s by William Cubitt, Lord Mayor of London, after whom it is named.
London Yard
Neighborhood
London Yard was a shipyard in Cubitt Town, London, in use between around 1856 and 1908 by various shipbuilding companies, including Westwood, Baillie and Yarrow Shipbuilders.
Island Gardens DLR station
- Categories: Docklands Light Railway station, underground station, station, and transportation
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.48807° or 51° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
-0.01051° or 0° 0′ 38″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Operator
KeolisAmey Docklands LtdNetwork
Docklands Light RailwayOpen location code
9C3XFXQQ+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 7132099274OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Island Gardens DLR station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آيلاند غاردينز (محطه مترو أنفاق لندن)”
- Arabic: “آيلاند غاردينز”
- Chinese: “島園站”
- Dutch: “Island Gardens (metrostation)”
- Dutch: “Island Gardens”
- Finnish: “Island Gardensin asema”
- French: “Island Gardens (DLR)”
- French: “Island Gardens”
- German: “Island Gardens”
- Indonesian: “Island Gardens”
- Italian: “Island Gardens”
- Korean: “아일랜드 가든스”
- Lombard: “Island Gardens (DLR)”
- Lombard: “Island Gardens”
- Spanish: “Island Gardens”
- Ukrainian: “Айленд-Ґарденс”
- Urdu: “آئیلینڈ گارڈنز ڈی ایل آر اسٹیشن”
- Yiddish: “איילאנד גארדנס דל״ב סטאנציע”
- Yiddish: “איילאנד גארדנס”
- “Island Gardens”
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