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Originally called the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway and opened between 1850 and 1852 , the railway linked the docks at Blackwall to Camden Town . It was renamed the '''North London Railway''' in 1853 . Its headquarters and locomotive works were situated at Bow . Its first City terminus was Fenchurch Street Station until 1865 when an extension from Dalston Junction to Broad Street was opened. Although at 1909 its officers were those of the LNWR , the NLR remained a separate operation with its own Board of Governors. The Broad Street to Richmond and Kew services were electrified in 1916 , responsibility for which was with the LNWR, who also half-owned Broad Street station. Among the first locomotives bought by the railway from outside contractors were five 0-4-2 Saddle Tanks . After that, all were constructed at Bow, none having a cab. The works also had a sizeable wagon repair shop. When the railway was merged into the LMS it was the smallest of fifteen workshops. It not only repaired NLR locomotives but, from 1927 those from the former LTSR . In the 1930 's the works developed and manufactured the Hudd automatic control system for the LTSR, which led in BR days to a team from the national headquarters setting up in Bow to develop BR's standard Automatic Warning System . The line from Dalston Junction to Poplar was heavily damaged during the Blitz as was the Bow workshop. Passenger service from Broad Street to Poplar via Victoria Park and Bow was not reinstated at the end of the war. The section from Broad Street to Dalston Junction was closed on 30 June 1986 . In 1956 the workshop was repaired diesel-electric Locomotive s for the Motive Power Depot at Devons Road (the first to become all-diesel). After a while it was receiving locos in the morning and turning them round by the evening, which initially confused the statistical returns since locos were entering and leaving the works on the same day. The works closed down in 1960 . Today, the Docklands Light Railway follows the path of the North London Railway from Bow Church DLR Station to Poplar DLR Station , and the North London Line follows its route between Homerton and Camden Road . Most of the section from Broad Street to Dalston Junction will be used for the extension of the East London Line of the London Underground , due to be completed in 2010 . Stations (north to south or clockwise)
(beginning of section opened in 1865)
(end of section opened in 1865)
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