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Thursday, 22 December 2022

Evening Walk - The Line Modern Art Walk - largest tide mill in the world and all that (new routing now including City Island), with short options

Length: (up to) 8.3 km walked distance
(plus 2 stops on the DLR and a Thames crossing on the ‘IFS Cloud’-cable car)

[Bailouts possible at Star Lane DLR/Canning Town tube stations (4.9 km walked distance) or North Greenwich tube station (before rounding the O2-Dome: 6.3 km walked distance)]

Meet 18.30 hours prompt outside Stratford Station, next to ‘Robert’ - a heritage locomotive displayed on the station forecourt on the Town Centre side (i.e.: not the Westfield side)!
[see the pdf directions for how to get there from your platform w/o fault]

As Cody Dock will be closed for the evening, we will have to walk the evening diversion (see the route map).

Repeat exploration of The Line – London’s first dedicated modern and contemporary art walk, which is fully waymarked and split into three parts, linked by a short DLR ride and the IFS Cloud cable car across the Thames. It is displaying a changing range of sculptures, all by prominent artists, while including some large artworks already in place. There are currently about twenty of them, although some of those were pre-existing artworks, in situ before The Line was launched.
The route starts in the Olympic Park and initially follows the Bow Back Rivers downstream, passing Three Mills Green & Water Mill (the largest tidal mill in the world) and Film and Television Studios (London's largest) and then follows the River Lea to Cody Dock, a community project on a former Gasworks site. After a short ride on the DLR you reach Royal Victoria Dock and take the cable car across the Thames. En route the DLR journey, a new artwork has been installed on the City Island development, accessible from Canning Town Underground DLR and Station.
The route then finishes with a stretch along the Thames Path rounding the O2-Dome, before turning to North Greenwich Underground Station and the neighbouring wide range of eateries and waterholes on the plaza and inside the Dome itself.
 
For a sketched map of the artworks en route click here.
The cable car fare is: £5.00 on Oyster Pay As You Go or online, or £6.00 cash. 
 
For a detailed route map, gpx/kml file, photos and pdf directions click here. T=short.21

1 comment:

Thomas G said...

11 walkers met up at the agreed time and spot, initially in light spittle/drizzle, bumping into a n=12 th walker as we left the Olympic Park. That dozen did not though include the person that had explicitly asked about the walk with the tidal mill needing to be posted. Anyway...
The rest of the walk was done in w=dry weather.
Nothing much to report about the route, other than that some of the artworks were difficult to spot in the darkness, and that - with Cody Dock closed for the evening, necessitating a diversion - all in it has quite a bit of industrial estates to walk through.
At Star Lane DLR, the train was just pulling out as we arrived, so we walked to Canning Town instead, past some rather unglamorous industrial buildings, and then across the bridge to City Island. Interesting for most, I'd think, as they had never been.
1 or other were dropping out at Canning Town, which left 10 to take the newly renamed IFS Cloud Cable Car (new sponsor = new name), and then on the other side 7 to go for dinner together. The independent outlets had their kitchens closed or closing already (and it wasn't even 21.00 yet), so chains were the only option. Wagamama it was to be, again.