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<br/>Island Gardens Station, D.L.R.
©Ron Hann
<br/>Island Gardens Station on the Docklands Light Railway (D.L.R.).
©Ron Hann
<br/>I think that is Millwall Park behind the railings. Anyway, the subject of the image is meant as an example of the mundane vehicles which we take for granted - the "garbo's" truck.
©Ron Hann
<br/>Tourist vessel heading up-stream.
©Ron Hann
<br/>This public house was here before the earliest railway and it is good to see that at least some older buildings have survived the poncification of the Isle of Dogs. It is in what is now Saunders Ness Road, formerly known as Wharf Road.
©Dr Neil Clifton
<br/>Christ Church, Cubbitt Town, from the river.
©David Long
<br/>You can have too many trees. Here is an example of how uncontrolled growth of boskage can obscure the view of what is a fine building, photography of which is almost impossible.
©Dr Neil Clifton
<br/>One of two churches on the Isle of Dogs this one was built using his own funds by William Cubitt between 1852 and 1854. Cubitt was reponsible for much of the development of the south-east corner of the Isle of Dogs. The road is the A1206 Manchester Road.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.1km north<br/>Rounding the bend.
©David Long
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The riverside Island Gardens make a pleasant place to sit on a warm spring morning
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Looking through the plane trees, the original Island Gardens station of the Docklands Light Railway can be seen. This station is now demolished and replaced by one underground, so that the trains can use the new tunnel to Greenwich and Lewisham.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This is on the Thames opposite the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.3km north<br/>I can add nothing to Neil's excellent caption for his photograph of the station [[583391]]. The road in front of the station is the A1206 Manchester Road.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The scene here has changed greatly many times over the years. This is the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs, and a settlement known as Cubitt Town grew up with small terrace houses occupied by dockworkers and others connected with the river. A railway first came here in 1872 and a station known as North Greenwich (Cubitt Town) was opened, but it was a short way further south than the above, very close to the River Thames. This railway closed to passengers as early as 1926, but in 1987 the first section of the Docklands Light Railway opened, using the viaduct of the former line and with a high-level station very close to the above site: see [[483988]]. With the construction of the DLR Lewisham extension in the late 1990s, the line had to be lowered so that a tunnel under the Thames could be constructed, so the high level Island Gardens station was demolished and replaced with the present underground station whose entrance is seen above.
©Dr Neil Clifton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The Docklands Light Railway opened in 1987. Car No 10 is seen here approaching Island Gardens station, the then southern terminus. This car, along with others of the same batch, was later sold to Essen tramways, where it still operates: Island Gardens station, as shown here, has been demolished and replaced by an underground station at the same place, so allowing the line to be extended under the river to Lewisham.
©Dr Neil Clifton

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