Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for xrail.
Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps its time to
think up a new name for the area since there won't be many docks left!

B2003

On Jan 14, 2:26*pm, wrote:
Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for xrail.
Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps its time to
think up a new name for the area since there won't be many docks left!

Xdox.

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Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for
xrail. Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps
its time to think up a new name for the area since there won't be
many docks left!

Well, there aren't *any* wharfs, either!

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:51:20 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
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Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for
xrail. Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps
its time to think up a new name for the area since there won't be
many docks left!

Well, there aren't *any* wharfs, either!

True!

Its a shame though, north dock was a very nice place to sit and have a drink
when I used to work down there many years ago.

B2003

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:51:20 -0000
"Recliner" wrote:
wrote in message

Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for
xrail. Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps
its time to think up a new name for the area since there won't be
many docks left!

Well, there aren't *any* wharfs, either!

True!

Its a shame though, north dock was a very nice place to sit and have a
drink
when I used to work down there many years ago.

B2003

When we had finished fitting out 30 The South Colonnade, the contractors
invited us to a meal in the floating restaurant in the North Dock.
Apparently it didn't get a lot of custom (there was nobody there then!) and
it mysteriously sank a short time afterwards. Insurance was mentioned! I
believe they raised it at the time, if not it should turn up now!

MaxB

On 2011\01\14 14:26, d wrote:
Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for xrail.
Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps its time to
think up a new name for the area since there won't be many docks left!

B2003


Quaylands.

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Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for xrail.

Is this something new?

The space inside the cofferdam, where the station box is to be built, was
drained in Feb/Mar 2010 IIRC. What, if anything, is going on outside the
cofferdam?

Paul S

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Come to that I've never seen any canarys down there .

They weren't canaries - they were dogs.

Insula Canaria = Isle of Dogs, which was the Latin name for the Canary
Islands (although the dogs were apparently seals - sea dogs in Latin).

Olsen Lines rather liked the idea of shipping fruit from one of Isle of
Dogs to another, hence the punning title of Canary Wharf.
--
Paul Terry

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:25:43 +0000, Paul Scott wrote:

Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for
xrail.

Is this something new?

No - (unless something extraordinary has happened since Xmas) - it's just
the stuff you've seen already.

"Recliner" wrote:

wrote in message

Just read they've drained the north dock down at canary wharf for
xrail. Is this going to be a permanent situation? If it is perhaps
its time to think up a new name for the area since there won't be
many docks left!

Well, there aren't *any* wharfs, either!


On the contrary, there are. A wharf is just a structure with a level
surface that is located directly adjacent to a berth. Most of the
berths in the docks on the Isle of Dogs are still accessible from the
river, albeit by vessels of reduced size compared with the ships that
used to be able to get in.