St Katharine Docks tube station

St Katharine Docks
Location	St Katharine Docks
Owner	Never built
Railway companies
Original company	Jubilee line
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St Katharine Docks was an authorised underground railway station planned by London Underground but never built. It was to be located near St Katharine Docks in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London as a station on an unbuilt extension of the Jubilee line to Woolwich Arsenal.

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.

Phase 1 opened as the Jubilee line in 1979, but uncertainty as to the appropriate eastern destination of the line and shortage of funds meant that the remaining works were never begun. An alternative route for Phase 3 was planned and approved in 1980 that followed a more northern alignment to Woolwich Arsenal and included St Katharine Docks station. It would have been between Fenchurch Street and Wapping.

Although preparatory works were carried out for Phase 2, neither it nor either of the Phase 3 routes were constructed. When, in the 1990s, the Jubilee line extension to Stratford was constructed, it followed a route south of the River Thames.

References

Bibliography

• Horne, Mike (2000). The Jubilee Line. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-220-8.

Abandoned Plans
Preceding station	London Underground			Following station
Fenchurch Street towards Stanmore		Jubilee line Phase 3 (1980) (never constructed)		Wapping towards Woolwich Arsenal or Beckton