Purfleet Rifle Range railway station

At that point Ordnance Way led down to the River Thames where a large gunpowder magazine had been established during the later part of the 18th Century.

In 1894 a signal box called Ordnance Crossing was opened replacing the previous arrangements.

This was provided with a run round loop for remarshalling trains and led to a transhipment shed where the ammunition was loaded onto road vehicles or the military narrow gauge railway.

Later the same year the War Office applied for a station to be built which the LT&SR had assumed would be open for the public.

In connection with the new station a signal box called Purfleet Rifle Range was opened on 5 February 1910.

[9] The rifle range closed in the 1990s and the site was sold to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 2000.

[8] The High Speed 1 railway line was built immediately north of the station site opening on 14 November 2007.