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The accompanying Crossrail Sponsors' Requirements commits them to the construction of the full scheme. [citation needed] On 15 May 2009, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Mayor of London Boris Johnson attended a ceremony at Canary Wharf to mark the start of construction. [23] On 7 September 2009, the project received £1 billion in funding.
London Overground (also known simply as the Overground) is a suburban rail network serving London and its environs. Established in 2007 to take over Silverlink Metro routes, it now serves a large part of Greater London as well as Hertfordshire, with 113 stations on the six lines that make up the network.
Greenwich Powder Magazine (as it appeared in 1738) The peninsula was drained by Dutch engineers in the 16th century, allowing it to be used as pasture land. In the 17th century, Blackwall Point (the northern tip of the peninsula, opposite Blackwall) gained notoriety as a location where pirates' corpses were hung in cages as a deterrent to other would-be pirates.
Oyster cards are accepted on the London Cable Car route between Greenwich Peninsula and Royal Docks. The cable car is outside of the London Travelcard validity. The single fare is the same as purchasing a ticket with cash or card, but the 10-journey discount ticket is not available.
Located on the Greenwich Peninsula by the Thames in south-east London, the works was built between 1881 and 1886. Most of the works was built on a greenfield site on Greenwich Marshes. [1] [2] The start of work on the site was complicated by proposals to build a dock system on the peninsula, similar to that on the Isle of Dogs across the river ...
North Greenwich (from Greenwich Peninsula) 14 May 1999: Connects with the London Cable Car from Greenwich Peninsula. map 24: Canning Town [c] 14 May 1999: Connects with Docklands Light Railway. map 25: West Ham [c] 14 May 1999: Connects with District and Hammersmith & City lines, Docklands Light Railway and National Rail services. map 26 ...
Enderby's Wharf is a wharf and industrial site on the south bank of the Thames in Greenwich, London, associated with Telcon and other companies. It has a history of more than 150 years of production of submarine communication cables and associated equipment, and is one of the most important sites in the history of submarine communications.
This page is a list of these buildings in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Grade I. Name Location Type Completed [note 1] Date designated Grid ref. [note 2]