Dagenham Dock railway station

Dagenham Dock is a railway station located at Dagenham in east/northeast London, England. The station is managed by c2c and all train services calling at the station are operated by the company. The station is in Zone 5. It is next to the A13 road and the closest station to the local Ford Dagenham plant. High Speed 1 and some freight tracks run parallel, however these are not directly accessible from the platforms.

History
The station opened on 1 July 1908; it was on the original route of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, but was not one of the original stations.

Services
The typical off-peak service frequency is:


 * 2 trains per hour to Fenchurch Street
 * 2 trains per hour to Grays

At peak times there is an increased service and some trains continue past Grays to Pitsea. Some late night and Sunday services towards central London terminate at Barking. There is also two services per weekday to and from Shoeburyness.

The station has ticket barriers.

Ripple Lane
Situated to the immediate west of the station, the Ripple Lane inter-modal freight depot was originally developed to supply parts from across Europe to the Ford Dagenham plant. Today it has become a base for various continental freight services.

On 30 October 2009, Stobart Rail commenced a new, weekly refrigerated train service, operated in conjunction with DB Schenker. The 1100 mi journey from Valencia, Spain, terminates at Ripple Lane, providing for the first time an alternative to lorries for the import of fresh Spanish produce. The first fully refrigerated goods service to run through Eurotunnel, it is currently the longest train journey in Europe by a single operator. On the return journey to Spain, the train carries pallets for CHEP.

Redevelopment
Although the station is relatively poorly served and located in an industrial area, there are extensive plans to redevelop the area as the London Riverside. Under these plans the station has become the southern terminus of phase one of the East London Transit and it is proposed that an eastern extension of the Docklands Light Railway would terminate here.