The dagger now means "not served by trains from Bank to Lewisham"I note that West India Quay has a dagger, which indicates that there is some kind of special service pattern in force. Unfortunately for some reason TfL no longer publicise on the map what this dagger means, and instead tell you to use the journey planner. Even the stations list page doesn’t tell you what the dagger means (although it does tell you what it means for Cambridge Heath & London Fields).
In the older maps the dagger said “Not served by DLR trains from Bank towards Lewisham before 1900 on Mondays to Fridays.” I note from the step free access guide it says that the direct trains don’t run at all.
It is only used for trains coming from Bank/Tower Gateway that would terminate at Canary Wharf, for example, during disruption or engineering blockades.I note that West India Quay has a dagger, which indicates that there is some kind of special service pattern in force. Unfortunately for some reason TfL no longer publicise on the map what this dagger means, and instead tell you to use the journey planner. Even the stations list page doesn’t tell you what the dagger means (although it does tell you what it means for Cambridge Heath & London Fields).
In the older maps the dagger said “Not served by DLR trains from Bank towards Lewisham before 1900 on Mondays to Fridays.” I note from the step free access guide it says that the direct trains don’t run at all.
Looking at Carto Metro, it looks like the trains from Bank towards Canary Wharf would cross over a flat junction with trains from Poplar towards Bank potentially causing a conflict. So looks like the flyover is a way to increase services.
yea i can see where the old Westferry to Poplar part used to be, suppised they only lifted that of it when the obviously remodelled when they added the flying junction, would think they remove entire junction or keep it in full for same functionality as current curve of track from west ferry to west India QuayAs originally built it was "Delta Junction", a fully flat three way triangular junction.
I'd be fairly sure they tried to design so they could retain platform 1 at West India Quay, but were defeated by spatial geometry. Likewise, were it done from scratch I'd envisage West India Quay, Poplar and Westferry all being the same four platform layout at the corners of a simpler looking grade separated triangle (much as Canning Town is not how you would lay it out if you could close the DLR and Jubilee for a couple of years and fundamentally rebuild it)
yea i can see where the old Westferry to Poplar part used to be, suppised they only lifted that of it when the obviously remodelled when they added the flying junction, would think they remove entire junction or keep it in full for same functionality as current curve of track from west ferry to west India Quay
that explains itThe Westferry-Poplar side was closed in 1994 when the East-West flyover was added for the Beckton extension.
The west-south rollercoaster was added in 2009 as part of the system capacity upgrade then. Presume in this case the flat route was still retained to keep the option of serving West India Quay open.