Design
The interchange is above ground, but access is by an underground concourse stretching the width of the site and connected to all platforms and the bus station by escalators, stairs and lifts. To the west of the complex there are two island platforms, one immediately above the other. The lower (surface level) platforms are served by the Jubilee line and the upper platforms by the DLR. Alongside and to the east of the Jubilee line platforms is an island platform which was served by the North London Line until 9 December 2006 and was reopened as a DLR station on 31 August 2011. Alongside this is the bus station, which has an enclosed above-ground concourse with doors to the surrounding bus bays.
The DLR branch to London City Airport opened on 2 December 2005. This line diverges from the line to Beckton 1/4 mile south of the interchange, with trains from both branches serving the current platforms. The first station along this route is West Silvertown. A substantial change to the DLR junction south of the station opened on 1 June 2009, when the Beckton line was diverted onto a new flyover that crosses the eastbound Woolwich line and the new Stratford line. As a result of these changes trains to Woolwich and Beckton can depart from either DLR platform.
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