Transport for LondonDocklands Light Railway - Woolwich Arsenal
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Construction of the DLR extension to Woolwich Arsenal is being carried out by WARE (Woolwich Arsenal Rail Enterprises) a joint venture company formed by AMEC plc and the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Under a concessionaire arrangement WARE has been contracted to design, build, finance and maintain the extension. This approach has successfully been taken previously with the Lewisham Extension (1999) and London City Airport Extension (2005).
Construction began in June 2005 and is estimated to last approximately three and a half years.
Two tunnels were driven under the River Thames to allow trains to run in both directions. The tunnels were completed on time and the 540-tonne boring machine, nicknamed Carla, broke through the earth south of the Thames in July 2007. Carla removed about 104,000 cubic metres of material – enough to fill around 1,100 double-decker buses.
The boring machine arriving
at the end of its
second journey
