Thames tributary Beam River - Eastbrookend
Thames Tributary Beam River The River, now called the Beam, flows south towards the Thames The river once flooded the valley occasionally but it is now imprisoned within artificial banks which are set back to create a channel within which it can flood. It supports small crack willows which overhang the banks as well as stinging nettles, dock, Himalayan balsam and Comfrey. Kingfishers have been seen here. Country park and nature sites Post to the north Eastbrookend Post to the south Bretons Post to the east Elm Park Railway Line Canal bridge – an arch of which could be seen on the south side of the line near Rainham Road. However, it never a canal under it. It was put in by the London Tilbury and Southend Railway when they built the line to Upminster in the 1880s because parliamentary powers must have existed for a canal and the company had to build a bridge for it. In the 1930s rebuilding for the District Line meant that the embankment filled in the northern part of the bridg...