Wapping railway station
Wapping is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located on the northern bank of the River Thames in Wapping within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Wapping, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England, UK
- Also known as: “Wapping and Shadwell”, “Wapping Rail Station”, “Wapping Station”, and “WPE”
- Wheelchair access: no
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
The Tower of London
Photo: Aniacra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. The Tower of London is situated 1 mile west of Wapping railway station.
Tower Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Barcex, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. Tower Bridge is situated 1 mile west of Wapping railway station.
Rotherhithe railway station
Railway station
Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rotherhithe is a station on the Windrush line of the London Overground, located on the southern bank of the River Thames at Rotherhithe within the London Borough of Southwark. Rotherhithe railway station is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Wapping railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Execution Dock and Wapping.
Execution Dock
Locality
Execution Dock was a site on the River Thames near the shoreline at Wapping, London, that was used for more than 400 years to execute pirates, smugglers and mutineers who had been sentenced to death by Admiralty courts.
Wapping
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Wapping is an area in the borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. Wapping is on the north bank of the River Thames, and was at one time a district with a strong maritime character.
Shadwell
Suburb
Photo: Tarquin Binary, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Shadwell is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. It also forms part of the city's East End. Shadwell is on the north bank of the River Thames between Wapping and Ratcliff and Limehouse and is 3 miles east of Charing Cross.
Wapping railway station
- Categories: underground station, station, and transportation
- Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.50443° or 51° 30′ 16″ northLongitude
-0.05602° or 0° 3′ 22″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Operator
TfLNetwork
London OvergroundAbbreviation
“WPE”Open location code
9C3XGW3V+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 2438276350OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noGeoNames ID
7670806Wikidata ID
Q801580
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Wapping railway station” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وابينغ (محطه مترو أنفاق لندن)”
- Arabic: “وابينغ”
- Chinese: “威平站”
- Chinese: “沃平站”
- Dutch: “Station Wapping”
- Dutch: “Wapping (metrostation)”
- Finnish: “Wappingin rautatieasema”
- French: “gare de Wapping”
- French: “Gare de Wapping”
- French: “Wapping (métro de Londres)”
- French: “Wapping”
- German: “Bahnhof Wapping”
- Hungarian: “Wapping állomás”
- Hungarian: “Wapping”
- Italian: “stazione di Wapping”
- Italian: “Stazione di Wapping”
- Japanese: “ワッピング駅”
- Lombard: “Stazion de Wapping”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wapping stasjon”
- Norwegian: “Wapping stasjon”
- Polish: “Wapping (stacja kolejowa)”
- Polish: “Wapping”
- Portuguese: “Estação de Wapping”
- Portuguese: “Wapping (Metropolitano de Londres)”
- Portuguese: “Wapping”
- Ukrainian: “Воппінг”
- Urdu: “ویپنگ ریلوے اسٹیشن”
- Yiddish: “וואפינג באן סטאנציע”
- Yiddish: “וואפינג”
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