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Chittys Lane, DAGENHAM, RM8 1UD

This is DuPont Performance Coatings (that’s paint to you and me). This facility in Freshwater Rd specialises in vehicle paint. The site has a vehicle refinishers training unit. However much of the site is the base for UK administration such as sales, marketing, customer service etc

Little did I know that the Ilford and West Essex Model Railway Club has a miniature railway which is visible through the barbed wire fence from the Shenfield-bound platform at Chadwell Heath station. It is complete with signalbox and semaphore signal. Looking south-southeast.

The line through here was opened on 20th June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the Mile End (temporary terminus) to Romford section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. The London terminus was moved in July 1840 to Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate), and at the eastern end the line was extended out to Brentwood in the same year. Colchester was reached by 1843. Liverpool Street opened in stages from February 1874. The line was quadrupled to Ilford in 1895 and in 1899 out to Seven Kings. In 1902 the quadruple track was extended from Seven Kings through Chadwell Heath to Romford. Chadwell Heath station was opened on 11th January 1864, and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the Eastern Counties Railway built the line in the 1830s. In this photograph the original lines, now the slow lines are to the right while the fast lines dating from 1902 are to the left beyond the railings. The next station in this direction is Goodmayes.