Dangleway, Silvertown and Stratford Marsh: My time out on Wednesday 26 June 2013 started by taking the tube to North Greenwich after which strolling to the cablecar for the journey throughout the Thames.
Again then I commented “Given the large losses it’s sustaining I can’t see it remaining open an excessive amount of longer, so should you’ve not taken a journey don’t go away it too lengthy“, and I’m stunned to seek out it nonetheless operating 8 years later. However maybe not for for much longer, because the sponsorship cope with the Emirates Airline involves an finish this month, and no different firm has come ahead to choose up the tab, though TfL have provided an enormous discount for the privilege.
By no means a wise contribution to London’s journey community it stays certainly one of London’s cheaper and extra fascinating vacationer points of interest. I’m unsure whether or not the truth that it now lands on the north financial institution spitting distance from London’s now misplaced County Corridor provides to its possibilities of retention, nevertheless it may make it extra prone to be introduced inside the regular London fare buildings.
There are already fare reductions for individuals with Travelcards, and frequent customers should buy a ticket which reduces the associated fee to make it a viable a part of a commute to work, significantly as you may take a motorcycle with you free of charge. Nevertheless I believe the variety of ‘frequent fliers’ might be solely in two figures. Its additionally a service which is extra affected by climate than floor transport, closing down in excessive winds.
However it does have the peak to offer some splended views, even when the encompassing space is maybe much less wealthy than that of London’s different aerial attraction, the London Eye. Truly for me is significantly extra engaging, and it’s an space which is now quickly growing on either side of the river, with new residential developments changing outdated industrial and industrial makes use of.
The dangleway can also be part of the East London sculpture path, The Line, which vaguely follows the Greenwich Meridian, from North Greenwich to Stratford and makes an fascinating stroll, though this can change into a extra fascinating stroll as soon as the riverside path from Cody Dock to the East India Dock Highway is opened, one thing now we have been ready for round 20 years. Someday it’d even lengthen previous Canning City station to Trinity Buoy Wharf, however we might not reside that lengthy.
Though you may see the riverside from above, little of it’s now publicly accessible, although I walked alongside Bow Creek and somewhat of the Thames right here again within the Nineteen Eighties taking pictures now on Flickr. However again then the Royal Victoria Dock was largely fenced off and now you can stroll round it and over a high-level bridge which additionally has fascinating views.
Or no less than you may more often than not. However the space turns into a excessive safety zone with the bridge closed when the Excel Centre is stuffed with arms sellers promoting typically unlawful arms to repressive regimes world wide – each different September. Happily it was June, although I used to be again there for the DSEI protests in September – and in different years.
The DLR additionally runs by means of the realm on a viaduct, and from the practice and the stations you additionally get some fascinating views, although the practice home windows are sometimes quite to soiled for taking pictures. That you’re wanting south from the road may also imply the solar is shining instantly into the lens.
That is the Woolwich department of the DLR and at Canary Wharf I modified onto a practice in the direction of Stratford, alighting at Pudding Mill Lane to stroll up onto the Greenway. I arrived simply too late to enter the View Tube there so I needed to be content material with making photos from the Greenway which runs excessive by means of the realm.
I’d begun making photogrfaphs right here again within the Nineteen Eighties, and had revealed a few of these on my my River Lea/Lee Valley web page – and within the Blurb e book ‘Earlier than The Olympics‘, returning to the realm often and photographing it because it modified and significantly because the Olympic website developed. Progress on restoring the realm to some helpful function seemed to be very gradual
Extra on My London Diary the place the images are additionally bigger – although you may see these ones bigger by opening the photographs in their very own window.
Stratford Greenway Olympic Revisit
Victoria Dock and Silvertown
Emirates ‘Airline’ – Arab Dangleway
Tags: Bow Creek, cable automobile, dangleway, DLR, Emirates Air Line, Excel Centre, excessive stage bridge, Lea Valley, London, London 2012, London Photographs, North Greenwich, Olympic website, Olympic Stadium, peter Marshall, River Lea, River Thames, Royal Victoria Dock, sculpture path, Silvertown, Stratford Marsh, The Line, Trinity Buoy Wharf, Victoria Dock, wharves
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