Tuesday, November 1, 2005

Canada Water bus station

Canada Water bus and metro stations, Rotherhithe, London

Canada Water bus and metro stations
Rotherhithe
London, January 2005

“Canada Water bus station serves the Surrey Quays area of the London Borough of Southwark, London, England. The station is owned and maintained by Transport for London. The bus station was opened on 18 September 1999 at the same time as the Jubilee line extension to Stratford reached Canada Water and is accessible by escalator from Canada Water station below easily. It is very near to Surrey Quays Shopping Centre. There is one alighting stand and four boarding stands within the bus station. The glass-roofed bus station was designed by Eva Jiřičná. It is a hub for services in the Rotherhithe and Bermondsey areas as well as an interchange for the tube station. Its most distinctive feature is a row of 16 m (52 ft)-long roof spans cantilevered from a row of central columns supporting a 100 m (330 ft)-long glass and aluminium canopy. This provides acoustic protection to the surrounding residential blocks and shelters passengers waiting below from the elements.” (Canada Water bus station, Wikipedia)

“Canada Water is a London Underground and London Overground station located in Rotherhithe, in south London, England. It takes its name from Canada Water, a lake which was created from a former dock in the Port of London. The station is located on the Jubilee line between Bermondsey and Canary Wharf stations and on the East London line between Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays stations, and provides an interchange point between the two lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 2. London Overground services commenced on the East London line on 27 April 2010, as the replacement extension of the historic tube line.” (Canada Water station, Wikipedia)

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