Purfleet-on-Thames railway station set for major rebuild as plans submitted for approval

Long standing plans to move and rebuild a little railway station currently serving the Essex town of Purfleet-on-Thames have advanced as the formal planning application has been submitted to the council for approval.
View from New London Road looking north (c) AHMM Architects
The impetus to upgrade the station comes from plans for a major redevelopment of the area around it to replace light industrial sites with nearly 3,000 new homes, and the current station is not just unable to cope with incr