The End
After the refinery transferred ownership to Vacuum Oil Company, later called Mobil. Improvements were made to the branch of the CLR that entered the refinery. The last passenger train however ran from Corringham station on Saturday 1 March 1952 at 12.20pm, by 12 April of the same year. Corringham station and the Corringham branch of the railway were noted as being demolished.
The end of the CLR as a company finally came on 20 September 1971 when the remaining constituents were wound up and became part of Mobil Oil.
The top end of the CLR track bed that included Corringham Station platform and loop track were sold to a housing developer in 1986 to make an estate known as The Hawthorns. This includes land up to Public Footpath 22. Part of the Corringham station platform is now the back drop to a garden in The Hawthorns and is still visable today through a gap in the houses.
The gate post, that showed people on Fobbing Road where the entrance to Coringham station was is still there today, just across the road from Kynoch Villas and Digby Road. It is hoped that The Corringham Light Railway Project can have this gate post painted white again like it was when it was a working station.
There is a meeting that is being held on Thursday 10th January 2013 at Pegasus Club Annex in Herd Lane, Corringham, Essex, to find out if anyone is interested in saving the track bed from Public Footpath 22 at the back of Pegasus Club to Ironlatch Crossing which is situated on 1925 version of The Manorway by the now closed LPG building between DP World Gate's 2 and 3.
The land is part of Pegasus Club land that is for sale after Petroplus Coryton went into administration in January 2012. If a new buyer is found for Pegasus Club, it is hoped that the fencing currently splitting the track bed from the club can be kept in situ, but a new developer could very well use the track bed as another access route to the club.
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