The original Pudding Mill Lane – a windswept island platform with single staircase and lift – is closing on Thursday 17th April.
That’s because a new Pudding Mill Lane station is opening 200 metres to the east, as the original station is slap bang in the middle of where some major Crossrail works need to be, so they’ve had to move the station – by building a completely new station.
The new Pudding Mill Lane will open on the 28th April, meaning that for 10 days, there will be no DLR services on this branch between Poplar and Stratford. But before then, get down to the old PML station to see it before it goes …