I'm writing this in response to all of you who replied - thanks.

It doesn't sound as bad as I feared (although I'll miss seeing the
actual trains roll into Canning Town every morning - can't be helped I
guess).

A couple of points though - some of you say it was well advertised etc
on groups such as these, or by going to my local planning office, but my
point is that as a commuter, I knew nothing about it until last weekend
(I'm no longer a regular on UTL - I am trying to ween myself off
newsgroups these days - it was becoming too addictive and I was getting
****ed off by trolls....)

I bet if you did a vox pop of commuters in Canning Town the vast
majority wouldn't have a clue. I didn't know, and I use Canning Town
every year and actually have more than a passing interest in trains and
in the London transport system.

So not sure whether this public consultation was really very well
PUBLICised (even though in the end it looks as though it's a good thing
after all, but I still would have liked to have been aware of it during
the consultation period without having to read the specialised
newsgroups!)

Actually - just to clear something up - you (Dave) wrote

and passengers from Custom
House, Silvertown and North Woolwich will need to change twice (by
taking the DLR from the nearest equivalent station to Canning Town,
and then Jubilee to Stratford).

but then

Well, if we're talking about North Woolwich, then they will have a DLR
direct to Stratford every 10 minutes followed by a Silverlink every 15
minutes, compared to a direct Silverlink every 30 minutes.

but if what you are saying in the earlier paragraph is true, then in
fact North Woolwich won't have a direct connection to Stratford as they
do now (albeit one every 30 minutes, but if you time it right you're
OK), they will surely have to change in Canning Town for either the
other branch of the the DLR via Star Lane, Abbey Road, etc., or they
will have to take the Jubilee to Stratford. It's still two changes to go
to Camden Road, Hackney Wick or wherever, as opposed to zero changes at
the moment. I'm not convinced that even with a more frequent service, a
passenger will get to Camden Road or Hackney Wick from George V faster
than they currently would from North Woolwich and a copy of the
Silverlink timetable in their pocket..... More line changes means more
possibilities of things going wrong, connections being missed, or
problems on the various lines.

I guess my main disappointment is probably that I will miss seeing the
old *******s rolling into Canning Town station, and being replaced by
those more soulless blue DLRs... no one likes history, especially
something dating back from the 1870s....

Incidentally, anyone know why the NLL is the only railway to
consistently, since the 1970s, to appear on every tube map
(notwithstanding the occasional appearence of the WAGN and sometimes the
Thameslink on more detailed tube maps?)

I know that this was because of a campaign of some sort, but don't know
why other similar lines were not granted such consistent inclusion on
the tube map.

Anyway, thanks again -

TRISTÁN