Railway Station and Gas Works at Grays Thurrock c.1918 [Author's Collection]. Map extract from Ordnance Survey Sheet 161 London NE - OS One-Inch Map Depicted 1954, Published 1960. Crown Copyright. Reproduced with kind permission of the National Library of Scotland under the Creative Commons Attribution licence.

Railway Station and Gas Works at Grays Thurrock c.1918

Dating from around 1918, possibly a little earlier, this photograph was captured from the footbridge at Grays Thurrock railway station. This was fairly close to the High Street so the camera is pointing westwards in the direction of London. The housing seen to the right of the photograph was in Maidstone Road, though this section is now known as Crown Road. Those buildings have all gone, the land now given over to a Tesco supermarket. The chimney was probably part of the Electricity Works, more recently the site of the Thurrock Enterprise Centre. Sadly, the station buildings have also gone - it is all a bit open-plan these days. The station, originally part of the London Tilbury and Southend Railway, opened in August, 1854.

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