West India Quay

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West India Quay is an area in the London Docklands, London, England. It is immediately to the north of the West India Docks and Canary Wharf. The warehouse at West India Quay was used to store imported goods from the West Indies, such as tea, sugar and rum, and is now a Grade I listed building.^[1]

Amenities

Museum of London Docklands is in West India Quay, inside one of the two remaining traditional brick warehouses in the West India Docks, as is 1 West India Quay. The West India Quay DLR station serves the area.

There is a Cineworld cinema, a Marriott hotel and several restaurants facing the water.

Transport

The north dock of the West India Docks adjacent to the district has been partially drained as part of the construction of Crossrail and new station is being built at the dock (linking to the West India Quay DLR station).^[2] The SS Robin and the Steam Tug Portwey have been moved away from the dock as a result of the works.

On 22 April 1991, two Docklands Light Railway trains collided at a junction on the West India Quay bridge during morning rush hour, requiring a shutdown of the entire system and evacuation of the involved passengers by ladder.^[3]^[4] One of the two trains was travelling automatically, operating without a driver, while the other was under manual control.^[5]

Notes

^ Grade I Building reference (Tower Hamlets) LB644(a), Warehouses and General Offices, West India Dock Road, at western end of North Quay, retrieved from http://webgis.towerhamlets.gov.uk/ 2009-12-24
^ Work officially starts on Crossrail - Photos Archived 17 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, ContractJournal.com, accessed 2009-05-17
^ Another commuter train wreck in London, Jonathan I. Kamens, RISKS Digest Volume 11 Issue 52 Article 1, 23 April 1991
^ Computer-controlled commuter trains collide in east London, UPI report relayed by ClariNet news service, 22 April 1991
^ Re: Trains collide in east London, Ian G Batten, RISKS Digest Volume 11 Issue 54 Article 10, 25 April 1991

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Canary Wharf

Buildings

Current	One Canada Square (235 m, 1991) Landmark Pinnacle (233 m, 2021) Newfoundland (220 m, 2021) Hampton Tower (215 m, 2021) One Park Drive (205 m, 2021) 8 Canada Square (200 m, 2002) Citigroup Centre (200 m, 2001) One Churchill Place (156 m, 2004) 25 Churchill Place (118 m, 2014) 25 Bank Street (153 m, 2003) 40 Bank Street (153 m, 2003) 10 Upper Bank Street (151 m, 2003) 1 Cabot Square (89 m, 1991) 5 Canada Square (88 m, 2003) 25 Cabot Square (81 m, 1991) 25 North Colonnade (80 m, 1991) 10 Cabot Square (74 m, 1991) 20 Canada Square (71 m, 2003) 20 Bank Street (68 m, 2003) 20 Cabot Square (65 m, 1991) 50 Bank Street (63 m, 2002) 30 South Colonnade (62 m, 1991) 17 Columbus Courtyard (45 m, 1999) 20 Columbus Courtyard (45 m, 1999) 1 Westferry Circus (45 m, 1992) 11 Westferry Circus (45 m, 1997) 15 Westferry Circus (44.5 m, 2001) 7 Westferry Circus (43.6 m, 1992)
Under construction	Harcourt Gardens Riverside South Wood Wharf
Approved	Columbus Tower Heron Quays West North Quay

Transport links

Current	A13 road Canary Wharf DLR station Canary Wharf Pier Canary Wharf – Rotherhithe Ferry Canary Wharf tube station Heron Quays DLR station London City Airport South Quay DLR station West India Quay DLR station Canary Wharf railway station
Proposed	Rotherhithe-Canary Wharf Bridge

Other

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Shopping centres	Bluewater (Greenhithe) (30%) Buchanan Galleries (Glasgow) Lewisham Shopping (Lewisham) O2 Centre (Camden) One New Change (City of London) Priory Square (Birmingham) ShopStop (Clapham Junction) (50% with Delancey) Southside (Wandsworth) (50% with Delancey) St David's (Cardiff) (50% with Intu) Trinity Leeds (Leeds) West 12 (Shepherd's Bush) Westgate (Oxford) White Rose Centre (Leeds)
Outlet centres	Gunwharf Quays (Portsmouth) The Galleria (Hatfield)
Retail parks	Lakeside (West Thurrock) Team Valley (Gateshead) Westwood Cross (Thanet)
Leisure	Bentley Bridge (Wolverhampton) Brighton Marina (Brighton) (commercial operations only) Cardigan Fields (Leeds) Lockmeadow (Maidstone) Parrs Wood (Manchester) Riverside (Norwich) The Cornerhouse (Nottingham) The Printworks (Manchester) Tower Park (Poole) West India Quay (Canary Wharf, Poplar) Xscape Milton Keynes (Milton Keynes) Xscape Yorkshire (Castleford)
Developments	20 Fenchurch Street (City of London) Cardinal Place (Westminster) Nova (Westminster) (50% with CPPIB) Oriana (West End) (50% with Frogmore) Piccadilly Lights (Piccadilly Circus) Portland House (Westminster)