Canvey should get its own station after calls were made for the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA) to look into the possibility of creating a new rail link.

Castle Point MP Bob Spink has vowed to ask the SRA to investigate making an island station a reality after he raised the subject in the House of Commons.

Mr Spink said 3,000 Canvey people used the train to reach work but only 600 commutters travelled from Shoebury.

Published Friday, June 20, 2003

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