[1] The line was operated on a cable-hauled basis with a 400 hp pair of stationary steam engines winding a cable 7 miles (11 km) long, to which the trains were attached on the cable car principle.

[2] It opened on 6 July 1840, as the City of London terminus for the L&BR (then known as the Commercial Railway).

The following year, it was supplemented by a new station several hundred yards to its west, named Fenchurch Street, designed by William Tite.

[1] The depot remained open until April 1951; demolition came shortly afterward.

[4] The western terminus of the Docklands Light Railway opened at Tower Gateway, just to the south of the site of Minories station, in August 1987.