[2] The dock was connected to the national rail network via a line which ran between Canning Town and North Woolwich.

The dock was deeply indented with four solid piers, each 152 m long by 43 m wide, on which were constructed two-storey warehouses.

From the 1960s onwards, the Royal Victoria experienced a steady decline – as did all of London's other docks – as the shipping industry adopted containerisation, which effectively moved traffic downstream to Tilbury.

[7] The Royal Victoria Dock experienced major redevelopment initiated by the London Docklands Development Corporation in the 1990s.

Developments included Britannia Village, which was carried out by Wimpey Homes, the Peabody Trust and the East Thames Housing Group in the mid-1990s.

[9] More recent development has included the Royal Victoria Dock Bridge completed in 1998,[10] and the ExCeL Exhibition Centre, constructed on the north quayside, which opened in November 2000.