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
1 comment:
n=12 walkers today, including 1 first-timer, on a w=warm evening.
There are indeed some new artworks along the route (at least one of which we failed to spot though) and the route has been slightly changed due to yet more building works on the fringes of the former Olympic Park.
We were unlucky with the DLR, having to wait 6 minutes for both trains we had to take (and we lost 1 walker here to 'going home'), but the cable car ride was then done in the fading light, which was perfect.
It being near 9 o'clock when we got off the cable car, some argued for taking dinner first, then continuing the walk, and that's what we did, split between two venues in The Dome. 5 of the 11 then continued the walk (most of the others could be seen ensconced in the All Bar One, chewing the fat) and with immaculate timing we later got to North Greenwich tube just in time to meet the deluge of people (95% young girls) exiting the 'Jin' concert (don't ask, some K-Pop sensation apparently).
Good evening out.
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