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Dagenham Dock Station 100 years oldIt was back in 1908 that Dagenham Dock station was built in a jointly funded and laboured venture by both Samuel Williams and the London & Tilbury Southend Railway. Samuel Williams went on to build a reported 20 miles of extra track for use of sidings for traffic to and from the actual Docks along the Thames at Dagenham. Williams was also responsible for the tracks being laid in what is now Fords.
Pictured below is Dagenham Dock Station under construction. This photo was given to me, and as there is no copyright to it, I have scanned it to use.
Just a stones throw from the station, Samuel Williams went on to build a Cafe and 54 houses and allocated land for allotments for his employees, with a Social Club many years later, in what could have been described as a Hamlet.
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