Greenwich North Tube Station

Opening of the Jubilee Line Extension between Stratford and North Greenwich

Greenwich, 14 May 1999. The Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, with several school children, today opened the first phase of London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension.

Hannah Severin and Jonathan Loh, both aged 11, from St Anthony's Junior School, Upton Avenue, Forest Gate; with other pupils from Colegrave Primary School, Henniker Road, Stratford; Oakthorpe Primary School Palmers Green; and Highbury Quadrant School) Highbury" will accompany Mr. Prescott on one of the new fleet of six-car trains, which will run between Stratford, West Ham, Canning Town and North Greenwich Stations.  These pupils will be the first youngsters to travel on the Jubilee Line Extension) which has been designed to last for well over 100 years - throughout their lifetimes

Visitors will now be able to travel by Underground to the Millennium Dome, which will open at the end of the year for the Millennium celebrations. The Dome is only yards away from North Greenwich Interchange.

Greenwich North station is the best view point to see the Millennium Dome at close quarters today!

The stations' designs have been kept simple. Natural light has been used wherever possible and they are large enough to cope with the increasing, number of customers over the coming years. This will be the most rigorously tested railway in the world.

For the first time in the United Kingdom, passengers will be able to see glass sliding platform edge doors in use on an underground railway, at North Greenwich Station. These doors, which have been thoroughly tested, will open and shut automatically with the train doors. They are designed to give better ventilation and greater safety.

The platform edge doors have been installed in all the below ground stations on the Extension, but not the surface stations at Canning T own, West Ham and Stratford.

Canning Town and North Greenwich Stations are completely new stations to the Underground and have been built with their own bus interchanges) which will make integrated travel much easier.

North Greenwich Station

North Greenwich Station, which was designed by Alsop, Lyall and Stormer, has been built on one of the largest brown field development sites in London. It has begun: a long term process of regeneration Oft-the huge and previously derelict North Greenwich peninsula, which was once a major gas works.

Above the Underground Station is a transport interchange, designed by Sir Norman Foster, where buses will arrive about every three minutes.  Passengers can wait inside the station until the bus arrives.

Initial Greenwich North Bus Station Platforms:

	Platform	Bus	Destination
	A	472	Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead, Thamesmead
	B	108	Blackheath, Lewisham
	C	188	Greenwich, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo, Holborn
	D	108	Poplar, Bromley-by-Bow, Stratford

Other Stations

Canning Town Interchange,  is situated between the River Lea and Silvertown Way. It was extremely difficult to design and construct because of its narrow site. It has an ingenious double deck design. The Docklands Light Railway tracks and platforms are elevated over the Jubilee Line. Below ground, these link to the Silverlink Metro platform and the new Bus Station at Silvertown Way.

Stratford Station, is a surface level station forming the eastern most terminus of the Extended Jubilee Line. The Jubilee Line platforms are linked to the rest of that station complex by a concourse building.   The new concourse is a glazed building with a 'breaking wave' profile and internal stainless steel cladding. The concourse provides interchange facilities between the Jubilee Line, the Silverlink Metro, Docklands Light Rail, Great Eastern Railway, the Central Line, West Anglian Great Northern and LTS Rail.  It is alongside and linked to Stratford Bus Station opened in 1994.

The new West Ham station, which is built above ground level, provides another much needed interchange with the Silverlink Metro, the District Line, Hammersmith and City Lines, and from

Operating Hours

Trains will run every six minutes for the first phase between Stratford and Greenwich North and will operate Mondays to Fridays between 0640 and 1945 for the: first few months until the second phase of the Jubilee Line Extension between North Greenwich, Canary Wharf, Canada Water, Bermondsey, London Bridge, Southwark and Waterloo, opens in late summer.

Analysis shows that only about 10,000 - 15,000 people will use the first phase on a daily basis, so this level of service over the first few months will be more than adequate. It will also give London Underground more time in the evenings and weekends to do more testing for the second phase of the Extension between North Greenwich and Waterloo.

Once the railway between North Greenwich and Waterloo is open in late summer the service will increase to a train every four minutes.

Time-table information from London Underground

Try a Virtual Visit of the Jubilee Line extension pictures of the new line on its opening day

Or if you have the time Ride the entire Jubilee Line Extension from the driver's cabin .
Even with a fast modem the 6.2Mb download can take over 30 minutes and then it takes over 8 minutes to watch.  Probably best left to moles and train 'afflicionados'.

Or you can customise your desktop with the sounds and graphics of the Jubilee Line Extension (again there are some very big files here).