Connaught Road railway station was a station located on Connaught Road, north of the channel joining the Royal Victoria and Royal Albert Dock

Royal Albert Dock

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s in east London

London

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, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway

Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway

The Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway in east London connected the Royal Docks with the Eastern Counties Railway . Authorised in 1844, it opened in 1846, and was absorbed by the ECR in 1847...

 (EC&TJR). It opened on August 3, 1880.

The station was located very close to the junction where the EC&TJR split into three branches (to Gallions

Gallions railway station

Gallions railway station was a station adjoining the River Thames by Gallions Reach, in Beckton, east London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway...

, Beckton

Beckton railway station

Beckton railway station was a railway station in Beckton, London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway. It originally opened in 1874 and was owned by the Gas Light and Coke Company, to serve the recently-built Beckton Gas Works. The line was opened for freight in 1872 and to...

 and North Woolwich

North Woolwich railway station

North Woolwich railway station in North Woolwich in east London was the eastern terminus of the North London Line. It was in Travelcard Zone 3. The next station was .-History:...

), between Canning Town

Canning Town station

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 and Central

Central railway station (London)

Central railway station was near the Royal Albert Dock and Beckton Park in London, on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway between Connaught Road and Manor Way on the Gallions branch. It opened on August 3, 1880,...

 stations on the Gallions branch. Connaught Road was sparingly used by passenger services, which ceased in 1940 after wartime

World War II

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 bombing, and the goods line closed with the closure of the Royal Docks. With the redevelopment of the Docklands region in the 1980s and 1990s, the line was replaced in 1994 by the Docklands Light Railway

Docklands Light Railway

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 extension to Beckton

Beckton DLR station

Beckton DLR station is the eastern terminus of the Beckton branch of the Docklands Light Railway in the Docklands area of east London. It is located in Travelcard Zone 3. The DLR branch from Poplar was opened on 28 March 1994...

. No trace of the station remains today, and the current-day Prince Regent

Prince Regent DLR station

Prince Regent DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in the Docklands area of east London. The station was opened on 28 March 1994 and provides access to the eastern end of the ExCeL Exhibition Centre and ICC London...

 and Royal Albert

Royal Albert DLR station

Royal Albert DLR station is a station on the Docklands Light Railway in the Docklands area of east London. The station serves the western end of the north quay of the Royal Albert Dock, from which it takes its name...

stations are both roughly equidistant from the station site.