ROYAL DOCKS IMPOUNDING STATION (London) - official review

Watch out for the Open House weekend (September).

For every year the station will open only for these two days!

Use your imagination to reconstruct ROYAL DOCKS IMPOUNDING STATION (London)

LOCATION. Nearest DLR station: Gallions Reach. As you get down from the platform, walk south and turn left into Atlantis Avenue. Turn right into Gallions Road to walk past all these middle-classed new-builds.

By the time you’ve reached the docks you’ll have noticed this somewhat out of place bricked house to your left.


BACKGROUND.
- The station maintains the water level in the dock by exchanging water with the Thames on the other side.
- It can pump a macho 7150 litres per second!
- Only a couple of hours of pumping is required on any day.

(Let’s spare time and effort: All info from the display boards is duplicated with the leaflets you get at the entrance.)

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Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.

Date of visit: 2019.09

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