CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".
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- Aug 31, 198790% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
London's Docklands Light Railway Opens
The driverless Docklands Light Railway opens to passengers, giving London's redeveloping docklands a low-cost automated metro built largely on disused rail viaducts.
- The Docklands Light Railway began passenger operation on 31 August 1987, after being formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987[2][3]
- It is an automated, driverless light metro created for the London Docklands Development Corporation (set up July 1981) as a low-cost alternative to extending the Underground[2][3]
- The government set a 77 million pound budget with a 1987 deadline; about eight miles of the route used disused viaducts and existing rail formations, two thirds of it on disused or underused railway[2][3]
- The initial system ran Tower Gateway and Stratford to Island Gardens with 11 trains serving 15 stations, and carried 6.7M passengers in its first year[2][3]
- It has since grown to 45 stations and 149 vehicles, with extensions to Bank (1991), Beckton (1994), Lewisham (1999), London City Airport (2005) and Woolwich Arsenal (2009)[2][3]
Cost £77M
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=i1pAfKsL1bkyoutube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Aug 31, 1987 ✓· 50% of score
Happened as dated, per the source: "opened on 31 August 1987 with 11 trains servicing 15 stations".
- [2]80%Docklands Light Railway - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 15, 2026· 50% of score
- [3]75%Building an Urban Railway: 30 Years of the DLR - The B1Mtheb1m.com· Published Sep 13, 2017· 0% of score
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