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By DLR.co.uk / 9 April 2008

Newham to get more DLR trains

Newham is set to get more DLR trains as part of 100 million pound investment programme funded by the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) and Transport for London (TFL). The borough will get three new stations at Star Lane in Canning Town, Abbey Road in West Ham and also in Stratford High Street.
Photo of a DLR train courtesy of Transport for London

DLR Train

These will be key to transportation during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

TFL unveiled the first of 55 new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) carriages last month that will boost the capacity of the railway and provide extra space and comfort for passengers.

The Olympic Delivery Authority and Transport for London have invested £100m in the new carriages which will deliver a fifty per cent capacity increase by 2010 and will continue to drive the regeneration of East London and the wider Thames Gateway.

The increase in capacity will also allow the Railway to keep pace with increasing passenger numbers, which currently stand at 65 million per year but are expected to rise to 100 million per year by 2012.

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