It is adjacent to the site of an older Custom House station built by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1855 and closed in 2006.

[8] On 14 October 1872 a branch to Beckton Gas Works opened to freight, the line diverging just to the east of the station.

The dock company acquired three former London & North Western Railway 2-4-0T locomotives to operate a shuttle service between Custom House and Gallions.

Eventually the service was reduced to a shuttle between Stratford (Low Level) platforms and North Woolwich generally operated by two car DMUs.

[16] In 1978 it was announced a new Crosstown Linkline service would be operated linking North Woolwich, Custom House and Stratford to Camden Road and this commenced on 14 May 1979.

The three track engine shed was built in 1881 by the London and St Katherine Docks Company after a fire had destroyed an earlier wooden structure.

The main duties undertaken by the shed's locomotives were shunting the various sidings, wharves and factories around the Victoria and Albert docks.

The reign of the diesels was short lived as the docks were in rapid decline and on 1 May 1970 the PLA system and Custom House shed closed.

[23] By the start of the 1990s new plans had been developed to extend the Jubilee line on a route south of the River Thames towards Stratford.

The adjacent Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station opened on 28 March 1994 as part of the extension to Beckton.

It is the principal public transport access to the ExCeL Exhibition Centre and its adjacent complex of hotels, restaurants and bars.