BREAKING NEWS is that the Docklands Light Railway will confirm later today (Monday 27 June) the introduction of train services from London City Airport (LCY) on Thursday 15 December, just in time for the Christmas rush. In a memorial unveiling ceremony this afternoon to commemorate first aircraft landing in docklands DLR chairman Ian Brown is expected to say that the railway was on schedule. Trains will take 22 minutes to Bank and just 10 minutes to Canary Wharf. He will also note that work was well advanced under the Thames for the Woolwich extension. The late Captain Harry Gee of Brymon Airways (now essentially Air South West) landed a DHC Dash 7 on Herons Quay (the parallel quay to Canary Wharf but only 600m long and too short for passenger operations) on Sunday 27 June 1982 proving the LCY concept and gaining prominence in the National newspapers the following day. Reg Ward, former chief executive of the now disbanded London Dockland Development Corporation and the man credited with the success of the LDDC programme, will unveil the plaque.
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