Canada Water station
London Underground and railway station serving Canada Water, Rotherhide, London Borough of Southwark, England, UK
Canada Water is an interchange station in London. It is on the Jubilee line of the London Underground and the Windrush line of the London Overground, and is in London fare zone 2. The station is in Rotherhithe in the London borough of Southwark. It takes its name from Canada Water, a lake which was created from a former dock in the Port of London. London Overground services commenced on 27 April 2010, as the replacement extension of the historic East London tube line.
History
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 £21.3 million and was later taken over by Tarmac.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canada Water station” is london Underground and railway station serving Canada Water, Rotherhide, London Borough of Southwark, England, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canada, Water and station, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q800610. Authority coordinates are 51.498, -0.050. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1993.
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