Canary Wharf tube station

Canary Wharf
Station entrance
Canary Wharf Location of Canary Wharf in Greater London
Location	Canary Wharf
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Managed by	London Underground
Number of platforms	2
Accessible	Yes
Fare zone	2
OSI	Canary Wharf Heron Quays
London Underground annual entry and exit
2012	48.04 million
2013	50.05 million
2014	51.81 million
2015	54.44 million
Railway companies
Original company	London Regional Transport
Key dates
1999	Opened
Other information
Lists of stations	DLR Underground National Rail Tramlink
WGS84	51°30′13″N 0°01′07″W / 51.50361°N 0.01861°W / 51.50361; -0.01861Coordinates: 51°30′13″N 0°01′07″W / 51.50361°N 0.01861°W / 51.50361; -0.01861

Canary Wharf is a London Underground station on the Jubilee line, between Canada Water and North Greenwich. The station, serving Canary Wharf, is in Travelcard Zone 2 and was opened by Ken Livingstone setting an escalator in motion on 17 September 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. It is maintained by Tube Lines. Over 40 million people pass through the station each year, making it second busiest on the London Underground outside Central London after Stratford, and also the busiest that serves only a single line.

Before the arrival of the Jubilee line, London's Docklands had suffered from relatively poor public transport. Although the Docklands Light Railway station at Canary Wharf had been operating since 1987, by 1990 it was obvious that the DLR's capacity would soon be reached. The Jubilee line's routing through Canary Wharf was intended to relieve some of this pressure.

The tube station was intended from the start to be the showpiece of the Jubilee Line Extension, and the contract for its design was awarded in 1990 to the renowned architect Sir Norman Foster. It was constructed, by a Tarmac Construction / Bachy UK Joint Venture, in a drained arm of the former dock, using a simple "cut and cover" method to excavate an enormous pit 24 metres (78 ft) deep and 265 metres (869 ft) long. The size of the interior has led to it being compared to a cathedral, and it has even been used to celebrate a wedding. However, the main reason for the station's enormous dimensions was the great number of passengers predicted; as many as 50,000 daily. These predictions have been outgrown, with as many as 69,759 on weekdays recorded in 2006.