 On 1 January 1889 the London & St. Katharine Docks Company and the East and West India Docks organisations united and operated as a joint committee before merging in 1901 and becoming the London and Indian Docks Company.The GER took over operation of all the train services in July 1896 when the three former LNWR locomotives were withdrawn.Around the turn of the century the line reached its zenith in terms of passengers carried and in 1900 there were 53 weekday services each way.