79+51 en route to Canary Wharf departing from Devons Road. This section of the DLR utilises the course of the former North London Railway's Poplar branch (though in east London) that opened to freight in 1852 and to passengers in 1866. The line closed to passengers after war damage in 1944 and although patched up for freight traffic to the docks after the war, the Broad Street to Poplar passenger service was never resumed. Travelling along this line in a modern DLR unit had a dream-like quality, making it almost impossible to believe that this once semi-derelict line, with its ghost stations that fired the photographers childhood imagination half a century ago, really has been brought back to life - except for the now abandoned section between Hackney and Bow.