Throughout the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games the Docklands Light Railway featured heavily on these pages as preparations were made to ensure it could be a useful and effective way for visitors to travel to some of the events. Now that the Olympics themselves are over things can start to return to normality but that is only after the DLR broke all passenger records over the 16 day period of the Games.<\/p>\n
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More than six million passenger journeys were made on the DLR during the Games period and this is more than 100% up on normal levels showing just how much strain the network took during the event. This included the highest number of passengers ever carried on one As part of their work to carry these large numbers of passengers it has been reported on several forums across the internet that for the first time four car trains were used from ExCeL although no confirmation has been received that this was actually the case. Two Throughout the build-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games the Docklands Light Railway featured heavily on these pages as preparations were made to ensure it could be a useful and effective way for visitors to travel to some of the … Continue reading
\nday when on Friday 3rd<\/sup> August over 500,000 passenger journeys were made with people travelling to most of the major Olympic venues including the Olympic Park itself at Stratford and ExCeL where many events also took place.<\/p>\n
\ndifferent all over advert liveries have also been carried by some of the older units during the Olympics with two three car trains operating in different adverts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"