Custom House station
Custom House for ExCeL 
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 Custom House for ExCeL
Location of Custom House for ExCeL in Greater London
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| Location | Custom House |
| Local authority | London Borough of Newham |
| Managed by | Docklands Light Railway |
| Owner | Transport for London |
| Station code | CUS |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Fare zone | 3 |
| DLR annual boardings and alightings | |
| 2012 |
 4.067 million |
| 2013 |
 3.369 million |
| 2014 |
3.849 million |
| 2015 |
4.063 million |
| National Rail annual entry and exit | |
| 2004–05 | 64,956 |
| 2005–06 |
66,184 |
| Key dates | |
| 1855 | Opened |
| 1994 | DLR service added |
| 2006 | North London Line service withdrawn |
| 2018 | Due to open (Crossrail) |
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| WGS84 | 51°30′35″N 0°01′33″E / 51.509639°N 0.025894°ECoordinates: 51°30′35″N 0°01′33″E / 51.509639°N 0.025894°E |
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Custom House for ExCeL is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in the Custom House area by the Royal Docks in Newham, east London. It is situated in Travelcard Zone 3. It takes its name from the old Custom House, which formerly stood nearby, and ExCeL London which it serves.
It is adjacent to the site of an older Custom House station built by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1855 and closed in 2006. A new Crossrail station is being built on that site, due to open in 2018. As a result of the Crossrail development, the Custom House DLR station will be closed from February 2017 until December 2017 - though trains will still pass through the station as usual.
The original Custom House station was opened in 1855, by the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR) on the Eastern Counties and Thames Junction Railway (ECTJR) line which was built to link the Eastern Counties Railway at Stratford with the developing London docks of the mid-nineteenth century. The ECTJR was formally absorbed by the ECR in 1847.
By the 1860s the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble, and most were leased to the ECR; they wished to amalgamate formally, but could not obtain government agreement for this until 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway was formed by amalgamation. Thus Custom House became a GER station in 1862.
On 14 October 1872 a branch to Beckton Gas Works opened to freight, the line diverging just to the east of the station. Passenger services commenced 17 March 1874 generally running from Stratford (Low Level platforms) or Stratford Market stations.
On 3 August 1880 the branch to Gallions was opened by the St Katherine's and London Docks Company although initially trains terminated at Central before being extended to Gallions in November of that year. The dock company acquitted three former London & North Western Railway 2-4-0T locomotives to operate a shuttle service between Custom House and Gallions.
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