Login
Login

Beckton tube station

{{Short description|Unbuilt London Underground station}}

{{One source|date=May 2025}}

{{merge|Millwall tube station |St Katharine Docks tube station |Surrey Docks North tube station |target=Jubilee line |discuss=Talk:Jubilee line#Merge proposal for unbuilt stations|date=May 2025}}

{{for-multi|the Great Eastern Railway station|Beckton railway station|the Docklands Light Railway station|Beckton DLR station}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=July 2018}}

{{Infobox London station

|name=Beckton

|image_name=

|owner=Never built

|original=Jubilee line

|locale=Beckton

|coordinates =

|platforms=

}}

Beckton was an authorised railway station planned by London Underground but never built. It was to be located in Beckton in the London Borough of Newham, in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of the Jubilee line. It would have been the terminus of a branch from Custom House adjacent to a planned depot for the line.

Plan

Plans for a new underground line connecting north-west and south-east London via the West End and the City of London were first considered in the 1930s. They were developed during the 1950s and 1960s until a plan for the Fleet line established a route to Lewisham in 1965 with permission to build the first phase to Charing Cross granted in 1969 with the second and third phases approved in 1971 and 1972.{{sfn|Horne|2000|p=36}}

Phase 1 opened as the Jubilee line in 1979,{{sfn|Horne|2000|p=45}} but uncertainty as to the appropriate eastern destination of the line and shortage of funds meant that the remaining works were never begun.{{sfn|Horne|2000|pp=50–52}} An alternative route for Phase 3 was planned and approved in 1980 that followed a more northern alignment to Woolwich Arsenal with a branch from Custom House to Beckton.{{sfn|Horne|2000|pp=50–52}} The line from Custom House would have followed the disused route of the Great Eastern Railway's Beckton branch.{{sfn|Horne|2000|pp=50–52}}

Although preparatory works were carried out for Phase 2, neither it nor either of the Phase 3 routes were constructed.{{sfn|Horne|2000|pp=50–52}} When, in the 1990s, the Jubilee line extension to Stratford was constructed, it followed a different route.{{sfn|Horne|2000|p=57}} Docklands Light Railway services between Custom House and Beckton follow a route along the north side of Royal Albert Dock.

References

{{reflist}}

=Bibliography=

{{refbegin}}

  • {{cite book | first=Mike |last=Horne |title=The Jubilee Line |url=https://archive.org/details/jubileeline0000horn |year=2000 |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=1-85414-220-8 }}

{{refend}}

{{Adjacent stations|header1=Abandoned Plans|system2=London Underground|line2=Jubilee|left2=Custom House|note-mid2=Phase 3 (1980) (never constructed)}}

{{Jubilee line navbox}}

{{Closed london underground stations}}

Category:Unbuilt London Underground stations

Category:Proposed London Underground stations

Category:Tube stations in the London Borough of Newham

Beckton tube station