London and Blackwall Railway

E419301

passenger railway railway company

The London and Blackwall Railway was one of London's earliest passenger railways, originally built in the 1840s as a pioneering cable-hauled line linking the City of London to the docks at Blackwall.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
London and Blackwall Railway canonical	4

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	passenger railway ⓘ railway company ⓘ
associatedWith	River Thames docks ⓘ
category	Dock railway in London ⓘ Early British railway ⓘ
connectedTo	Eastern Counties Railway ⓘ London, Tilbury and Southend line ⓘ surface form: London, Tilbury and Southend Railway
constructionStartDate	1836 ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
electrification	not electrified ⓘ
endPoint	Blackwall Docks ⓘ
gauge	standard gauge ⓘ
heritage	alignment reused by Docklands Light Railway ⓘ some viaducts and arches survive ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Victorian era ⓘ
inception	1840 ⓘ
infrastructureType	brick arches ⓘ viaduct ⓘ
laterConvertedTo	locomotive-hauled railway ⓘ
laterName	London and Blackwall Railway self-link ⓘ
locatedIn	Blackwall ⓘ City of London ⓘ East End of London ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London
notableFeature	early use of cable haulage in Britain ⓘ one of the earliest passenger railways in London ⓘ
openedAs	cable-hauled railway ⓘ
openingDate	1840-07-06 ⓘ
originalName	Commercial Railway ⓘ
ownerAfterGrouping	London and North Eastern Railway ⓘ
passengerServiceTo	Blackwall Pier ⓘ
primaryPurpose	access to London docks ⓘ passenger traffic ⓘ
propulsionSystem	cable haulage ⓘ steam locomotive haulage ⓘ
regionServed	Greater London ⓘ
servedArea	Isle of Dogs vicinity ⓘ London Docklands ⓘ
startPoint	City of London ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ
successor	London, Tilbury and Southend Railway operations into Fenchurch Street ⓘ
terminus	Blackwall station NERFINISHED ⓘ Fenchurch Street station NERFINISHED ⓘ Minories station ⓘ
trackLength	approximately 3.5 miles ⓘ
transportMode	rail transport ⓘ
usedFor	commuter services ⓘ dock workers’ transport ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sir William Cubitt → notableWork → London and Blackwall Railway ⓘ

Sir William Cubitt → designed → London and Blackwall Railway ⓘ

Fenchurch Street railway station → openedBy → London and Blackwall Railway ⓘ

London and Blackwall Railway → laterName → London and Blackwall Railway self-link ⓘ