Travel by train from East Croydon to Manchester Piccadilly in 3h 27m. Compare prices, view live journey times & book cheap train tickets for East Croydon to Manchester Piccadilly.
If the population of London is going to grow, demand for travel across the river will increase with it, and Blackwall will continue to increase in popularity because it is close to central London, has good onwards links in all directions and – perhaps crucially – because it is close to ...
This turned out to be beneficial, as the branch was used as a test bed for a more advanced form of Automatic Train Operation (ATO) which took a couple of years of operation before it really worked satisfactorily – and could thus be extended to the rest of the DLR. A consequence of th...