The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

This made the docks within Victoria Harbour obsolete as the principal docking area shifted closer to the mouth of the Yarra, this was seen as a large urban blight by the Cain state government.

The movie had many scenes of the docks area.

The area declined as first the Royal Navy moved out and then the commercial docks declined until the last dock, Convoys Wharf, closed in 2000.

Poplar also contains several Seamen's Mission buildings, reflecting the area's long-standing connection to London's docks which for so many years gave the area employment.

As with most of the East End of London, Stepney was sparsely populated marshland until the 19th century, when the development of London's docks and railways, combined with slum clearance, pushed the displaced poor and various immigrants looking for work into cheap housing being built in the area.

Until the arrival of formal docks, shipping was required to land goods in the Pool of London, but industries related to construction, repair, and victualling of ships flourished in the area from Tudor times.

In addition to ferry services, the port also handles cruise ships at the Gare Maritime Transatlantique on the Quai de France next to the Cité de la mer and conventional cargo ships in the eastern area of the docks on the Quai des Flamands and Quai des Mielles.

In the 18th century the castle became the property of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who became through his Herbert wife a major landowner in the area, and whose heirs developed the docks that transformed Cardiff from a fishing village to a major coal exporting port during the 19th century.

There is a seaplane area on Greenwood Lake, a few large marinas and lakeside restaurants with docks.

The Town of Schroon maintains public docks in the village area, which makes the shops and restaurants accessible to boaters.

Subsequent grants, private investment, and town monies have maintained the forward momentum, so that the town now has a new sea wall, underground utilities, brick paved walkways with planters along the waterfront, all in the downtown area, and tree-lined streets, renovated houses, new docks and new businesses.

Though boating and fishing are popular in the area, there is only one boat launch with two seasonal docks and no marina in the city.

There are a number of towns which line the shores, as well as the petrochemical complexes at Grangemouth, the commercial docks at Leith, former oilrig construction yards at Methil, the ship-breaking facility at Inverkeithing and the naval dockyard at Rosyth, with numerous other industrial areas including the Forth Bridgehead area ( i. e., Rosyth, Inverkeithing and the southern edge of Dunfermline ), Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Bo ' ness and Leven.

The docks at Leith underwent severe decline in the post-Second World War period, with the area gaining a reputation for roughness and prostitution, with an official ' tolerance zone ' until 2001.

In 2004 the owner of the docks, Forth Ports, announced plans to eventually close the port and carry out a major redevelopment of the area.

Stone from this area was used to build the docks at Leith and Liverpool as well as many of the pavements of London.

The total area of docks was 104. 25 acres ( 42 ha ).

After the docks were closed in 1980 the British Government adopted various policies to stimulate the redevelopment of the area, including through the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1981 and granting the Isle of Dogs Enterprise Zone status in 1982.

From 1802, the area was one of the busiest docks in the world.

This development was helped considerably by the opening of railways, the expansion of the docks area or ' Quay ' and the setting up of a board of commissioners to run the town.

The Marsh and Quay, a large working class area of the town around the docks and a major part of the town's history, was demolished in the early 1980s.

Other opening night programmes included a Filmed Playhouse drama entitled The Last Reunion, a preview programme called Coming Shortly, an episode of the American crime drama Highway Patrol and most notably, a networked opening night programme entitled Southern Rhapsody, starring Gracie Fields and the Lionel Blair Dancers, televised from the station's studios in a converted cinema in the Northam area of Southampton and the ocean liner Caronia which was berthed in Southampton docks.

The town also has two markets, one next to Freshney Place and the other in Freeman Street ( B1213 ), itself once a dominant shopping area in the town with close connections to the docks but one that has sadly struggled since the late 1970s.

At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.

The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

The Czech Republic also possesses Moldauhafen, a enclave in the middle of Hamburg docks, which was awarded to Czechoslovakia by Article 363 of the Treaty of Versailles to allow the landlocked country a place where goods transported downriver could be transferred to seagoing ships ; this territory reverts to Germany in 2028.

The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

Mountbatten, who was promoted to the acting rank of vice-admiral in March 1942, was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of The Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942, an operation resulting in the disuse of one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after war's end, the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic.

The Dolmatova, a Soviet freighter bound for Odessa, had left Beirut that morning so abruptly that cargo was left scattered over the docks.

Especially damaged was transportation infrastructure, as railways, bridges, and docks had been specifically targeted by air strikes, while much merchant shipping had been sunk.

Her treasury was nearly empty, her docks were depleted, and the flower of her youth was dead or imprisoned in a foreign land.

The Lateran obelisk was shipped to Rome soon afterwards, but the other one then spent a generation lying at the docks due to the difficulty involved in attempting to ship it to Constantinople.

On the Waterfront was filmed over 36 days on location in various places in Hoboken, New Jersey, including the docks, workers ' slum dwellings, bars, littered alleys, rooftops.

Another theory involves a shipment destined for the American colonies that was accidentally diluted by rainwater while it sat on the docks in Savannah, Georgia.

The British tour ended with the band being chased to the Southampton docks by Lord Harrington, who was infuriated that his daughter was being romanced by the lead singer of the band.

To aid the construction of the docks at Port Talbot, the river was diverted away slightly.

The port was rendered unusable due to the scattered wrecks blocking the channels and access docks.

Better transport access for milk that was inward shipped by canal, and cocoa that was brought in by rail from London, Southampton and Liverpool docks was taken into consideration.

The railway is featured in the final scenes of the film The Clouded Yellow ( 1951 ), as the character played by Jean Simmons uses the railway to travel to one of the docks.