Tickets Alert: Visit the West India Docks Impounding Station

If you live near Canary Wharf, you might regularly pass a rather modest brick building, but hidden within is an industrial delight.This is the West India Docks Impounding Station, and huge engines pump water into the docks to keep them filled and slightly higher than the Thames so that when dock gates are opened, water doesn’t rush into the docks. At full power, the three pumps inside the building can pump 65 million gallons into the docks over a four-hour period around high tide.
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