Corringham Light Railway - Overview

Overview

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway had a branch from Thames Haven Junction, near Stanford-le-Hope, to Thames Haven on the Thames Estuary. There was a passenger station at Thames Haven but it closed before the CLR opened.

The CLR ran from a junction with the LTSR near Thames Haven to the Kynoch explosives works at Shell Haven with branches east to Kynochtown (later renamed Coryton) and west to Corringham.

In its later years the CLR was owned by the Mobil Oil Company serving its Coryton Refinery.

It was some 2+3⁄₄ miles (4.4 km) in length.

The site of the Corringham Station on Fobbing Road is still apparent from the satellite view of postcode SS17 9DB. The trees that lined the track as it ran north and curved westward into the station are still present. If you enter a small development of houses called The Hawthorns, the rear of the brick built platform is still visible behind "Station House" to your right. Coryton Station is known to still survive within the confines of the refinery and was restored cosmetically by BP in 1985.