Tilbury Marine railway station

The station was opened on 17 April 1886 by the London and St Katharine Dock Company and was named Tilbury Tidal Basin. Its only passenger services were boat trains connecting with Liners using the basin. The service was not successful and after December 1906 passenger traffic instead run to Tilbury Riverside. The station was then used for goods traffic.^[1]

It was reopened and refurbished and renamed Tilbury Marine by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) on 15 May 1927 in connection with its new Dunkirk service. This included through coaches to Bradford and Manchester via the LMS route from St Pancras. Although reasonably successful in the summer the service was poorly used during the summer and the last services ran on 30 April 1932 with the station closing permanently on 1 May 1932.^[2][3]

After this point the station remained and was again used by goods traffic. It was bombed during World War 2 but the buildings mostly survived.^[4]

• Tilbury Riverside
• Tilbury Town
• East Tilbury
• Low Street