South Ockendon - Transport

Transport

The railway line from Upminster to Grays separates the old village of South Ockendon from Belhus, which has been in continuous development since the early 1950s and has been subsumed, in name at least, into South Ockendon. Belhus effectively divides Aveley from Ockendon. More correctly the M25 motorway makes that division. The railway line itself is a spur between Grays Thurrock and Upminster of the line from Fenchurch Street Station (in London)to Southend and Shoeburyness. This line splits at Barking into the northern track through Upminster, West Horndon, Laindon, Basildon etc. and the southern track through Rainham, Purfleet, Grays, Tilbury, Stanford le Hope and Pitsea. Trains through Ockendon station run mostly at half hour intervals and take about half an hour to reach Fenchurch St. Local buses join South Ockendon with Upminster, Romford, Brentwood, Grays, Basildon and Lakeside. There are two TFL routes 347 runs from Ockendon Station via Cranham, Upminster and Harolds Wood to Romford while 370 routes by Corbets Tey,Upminster and Hornchurch also to Romford.