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Stratford DLR Station
London, UK
This new landmark terminus caters for significantly increased capacity and planned 3 car train operations. Making space for the 2012 Olympics, the new station is the first piece in the jigsaw of a wider East London masterplan.
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With its sculpted steel canopy supported on cantilevered columns, considered use of lighting and bold color, the new station provides a distinctive, efficient and attractive replacement for its highly congested and restricted forerunner on the same site.
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As the existing four-meter wide single-terminating DLR station platform at Stratford was incapable of expanding physically to meet continuing passenger growth, the design team was briefed to develop a completely new station with a corresponding new track alignment, that would meet DLR’s requirements for additional passenger capacity, improved train frequencies as well as longer platforms for future three car train operations.
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Entry to the new DLR station, from the street, is via the existing main entrance, and the lifts, escalators and stairs linking the existing Mezzanine and Concourse. Beyond the western end of the new platforms, the triangulated steel platform canopy gradually folds to form an enclosed bridge that links to a shallow ramp leading down to the existing external balcony of the Stratford Regional Station Mezzanine. The seamless transition is achieved by means of 23 meter long steel trusses incorporated into the sidewalls of the bridge.
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The second platform and a new footbridge at the Stratford Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in East London has been successfully open to passengers since the end of 2007.
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Exploded Axonometric
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Longitudinal Sections
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Cross Sections
Completed: 2007
Client: DLR
Architects: SMC Alsop
Project Director: Shaun Russell
Project Architect: Paul Shakespeare
Engineering: Atkins
Services Engineering: Mott MacDonald
Design & Build Contractor: Hochtief
Engineering Detail Design: Tony Gee & Partners
Services Sub contractor: Emcor
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