London - Docklands Light Railway

The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is a modern urban transport system (the trains are driven solely by computer), which provides the essential communications for the Docklands area. The extension east to Beckton, via the Royal Docks, opened in 1994. Between the stations of Gateway and Poplar the line follows the route of the earliest railroad in London, the London and Blackwall, constructed in 1840, which linked the City and the port. In the other direction one stretch follows the route of the Northern London Railway which was built in the 1850s to provide transport from the East and West India Docks to the industrial areas of the Midlands and the North. Between Poplar and Island Gardens the line runs high above the docks and then follows the track of the Millway Extension Railway, laid out in 1868, on which some of the trains were pulled by horses.

The Lewisham extension was added in 1999 and the London City Airport Extension opened in 2005.