On Jan 14, 2:26*pm, wrote:
Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for xrail.
Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps its time to
think up a new name for the area since there won't be many docks left!

B2003

btw - to actually answer your question, they've spent the last 2 or so
years walling off part of the dock behind the FSA/Bank Of America/HSBC
buildings, which I suspect lines up pretty well with where Jubilee
Line station is - that whole section, as well as the section between
the FSA/BofA building has all been completely drained, which will form
the station box/new shopping centre.

IIRC, CW have agreed to stump up cash based on the idea that the
shopping centre will be built anyway, and so the work for the station
should go ahead at the same time. This meant that even though it might
have been possible over the last 2 years that work on CrossRail might
stop, the shopping centre would have gone ahead regardless.

There's probably loads of docs/pics on the internet.

There's also plenty of water around too, so they can keep the
docklands name, I suspect.

Btw - given they've done this now, and that the North Quay (or dock, I
don't know which) is never going to have boats going through it now,
surely they could go ahead with what I think the DLR most needs, and
that is to formally close West India Quay station, and simply build a
footbridge directly below the DLR line? Now that some routes call in
one direction and not in another, surely anything that can be done to
remove WIQ completely should be done, as it's near redundant now.