This railway, which has been in process of construction during the last two or three years and is still incomplete, diverges, from the London and Tilbury line about a mile west of Grays Thurrock station. Thence its range is either northerly or north-westerly. It crosses the Mardyke about half a mile west of Stiffbrd, and its course lies westward of the villages of North and South Ockendon and eastward of Stubbers and Cranham Hall. From Cranham Hall to Romford its direction is more westerly. At Upminster it joins the railway from Barking to Langdon Hills and Pitsea, and then, leaving it again close to Upminster station, keeps on the northern side of the road between Upminster and Hornchurch, and crosses that ranging northward from the last-named village at Butts Green. Then, passing close to, but southward of, the farmhouse called Great Gardens, it joins the Great Eastern Railway about half a mile east of Romford station. The portion of the line south of Upminster is in a more advanced state than that between Upminster and Romford, the mile nearest Romford being at present (Feb. 1892) in the most backward condition.