Why you should experience Eastway in London, England.
Eastway is a dynamic corridor where Hackney Wick's industrial legacy, Olympic regeneration, canal networks, and creative industries converge across one of East London's principal urban routes.
Running through Hackney Wick between Hackney Wick and Stratford, the corridor developed during the twentieth century as industrial expansion, railway infrastructure, and manufacturing transformed the Lower Lea Valley into one of London's most productive employment districts. Factories, warehouses, railway sidings, workshops, and transport infrastructure established a lasting relationship between industry and commerce that continues defining Eastway today. Twenty-first-century regeneration introduced new workplaces, residential development, and cultural venues while preserving important elements of the district's industrial fabric. The result is an experience defined by industrial continuity, adaptive reuse, and a corridor shaped by successive phases of metropolitan growth.
What you should know about Eastway.
Eastway is best known for following the northern edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park while linking Hackney Wick with Stratford across land transformed by more than a century of industrial development, railway expansion, and the comprehensive regeneration undertaken for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The corridor developed beside the River Lea Navigation, the Hertford Union Canal completed in 1830, the North London Railway opened through Hackney Wick in 1856, and extensive engineering works that supported chemical production, timber yards, printing, metalworking, and food manufacturing throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Preparations for the 2012 Games involved extensive land remediation, new bridges, flood management infrastructure, transport improvements, and environmental restoration that reshaped former industrial sites while retaining significant waterways and transport corridors. Eastway now connects one of London's largest regeneration areas with Hackney Wick's surviving industrial buildings, creative workspaces, and canal-side environment that reflect both historic industry and contemporary redevelopment.
Here East, opened in 2017 within the former International Broadcast Centre, accommodates technology companies, universities, research organisations, and creative businesses inside the Olympic Park. Hackney Wick station, rebuilt before the 2012 Games, strengthens rail connections on the London Overground while serving one of London's largest concentrations of converted industrial workspace. Copper Box Arena, completed for the 2012 Olympic Games as a multi-sport venue, continues hosting national and international sporting events alongside community programmes within the park. The London Legacy Development Corporation, Historic England, and the London Boroughs of Hackney and Tower Hamlets continue managing regeneration, industrial heritage, waterways, and public spaces surrounding Eastway.
How to fold Eastway into your trip.
Eastway works as an exploration of East London's industrial transformation, waterways, and Olympic legacy.
Begin at Hackney Wick station, where railway infrastructure introduces the transport history surrounding Eastway. Continue to Here East, whose adaptation of the former International Broadcast Centre reflects the area's transition from Olympic infrastructure to innovation and education. Conclude at Copper Box Arena, where the continuing use of an Olympic competition venue demonstrates the long-term redevelopment of the Lower Lea Valley. The progression moves naturally from historic transport through adaptive reuse before concluding with Olympic legacy infrastructure, revealing the successive stages that shaped Eastway.
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