Pressure building to extend the DLR to Thamesmead

The campaign to extend the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) across the river to Thamesmead has stepped up with two MPs raising the issue.
The Minister for London, and now a prospective candidate for Mayor of London, Paul Scully MP paid a visit to Thamesmead last week to hear about the proposals, while local MP, Abena Oppong-Asare MP has written to the Transport Secretary calling for the railway to be built.
If built, then the DLR extension would run in a new spur off the Beckton branch to a new sta