Evening Walk - The Line Modern Art Walk (Stratford to North Greenwich or Canning Town)

Unlike Sculpture in the City, which has fewer artworks on display every year, The Line has upped its ante and there are now more works on display than ever before. Let's check 'em out!

 

Length: (up to) 8.3 km walked distance 

(plus 2 stops on the DLR and a Thames crossing on the ‘IFS Cloud’-cable car, which closes at 21.00 hours) 

[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 18.45 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]

 

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

 

After a short ride on the DLR you reach Royal Victoria Dock and take the cable car across the Thames. 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 £7.00 for cash payers but will be less on Oyster Pay As You Go or online.

 

For a detailed route map, gpx/kml file, photos and pdf directions click here. T=short.21