Canada Water railway station

Canada Water
Cylindrical main station entrance
Canada Water Location of Canada Water in Greater London
Location	Canada Water
Local authority	London Borough of Southwark
Managed by	London Underground
Owner	Transport for London
Station code	ZCW
Number of platforms	4
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	10.72 million
2013	11.56 million
2014	11.81 million
2015	12.78 million
National Rail annual entry and exit
2011–12	4.883 million
2012–13	6.500 million
2013–14	6.214 million
2014–15	10.331 million
2015–16	23.644 million
Railway companies
Original company	London Regional Transport
Key dates
19 August 1999	East London Line opened
17 September 1999	Jubilee Line opened
23 December 2007	East London Line services withdrawn as part of London Underground
27 April 2010	East London Line Services as part of London Overground begin
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
External links	Departures Layout Facilities Buses
WGS84	51°29′54″N 0°03′00″W / 51.498333°N 0.05°W / 51.498333; -0.05Coordinates: 51°29′54″N 0°03′00″W / 51.498333°N 0.05°W / 51.498333; -0.05

Canada Water is an interchange station between the London Underground and London Overground. It is located in Rotherhithe, in south London, England. It takes its name from Canada Water, a lake which was created from a former dock in the London Docklands.

The station is located on the Jubilee line between Bermondsey and Canary Wharf stations and on the London Overground between Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays stations, and provides an interchange point between the two lines. It is in Travelcard Zone 2.

London Overground services commenced on the East London Line on 27 April 2010, as the replacement extension of the historic tube line.

Canada Water was originally intended to be a stop on the aborted Fleet Line Extension to Thamesmead. The extension was never built, but Canada Water became the only projected Fleet Line Extension station to be realised on the Jubilee Line Extension.

The station is a wholly new building on a derelict site formerly occupied by Albion Dock, part of the old Surrey Commercial Docks. The station was one of the first designed for the Jubilee Line Extension. The contract for the station's construction was initially awarded to Wimpey in 1993 for the sum of £21.3 million and was later taken over by Tarmac (now Carillion). Construction began in 1995. It proved extremely challenging, requiring the excavation (by cut-and-cover) of a void 150 m (490 ft) long, 23 m (75 ft) wide and 22 m (72 ft) deep. The building of the East London Line station required a separate slot at right angles, 130 m (430 ft) long, 13 m (43 ft) deep and tapering in width, incorporating a Victorian railway tunnel. Construction was complicated by the high water table on the site, which is located on the Thames flood plain; extensive deep-well dewatering was required to lower the water table before the enclosure to the excavations could be built. A total of 120,000 m³ (4,237,760 ft³) of spoil had to be excavated. An additional complication was the location of the excavation site, near the foundations of two existing 22-storey tower blocks and the northern end of the former Canada Dock, now the ornamental lake Canada Water. The section of East London line running through the station was completely reconstructed, with the 19th-century brick railway tunnel being dismantled and the track relaid over a new structure bridging the Jubilee line tracks below. As the East London line had to be closed for this work, London Underground took the opportunity to carry out other remedial works such as repairs to the Thames Tunnel, a short distance to the north.