The principal ports for London moved downstream to the ports of Felixstowe and Tilbury.

* June 22 – The ship Empire Windrush brings a large group of Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Tilbury near London, the start of a large wave of immigration to Britain.

At Tilbury on the Thames he erected a camp for the defence of London, should the Spaniards indeed land.

The London Plan Working Party Report of 1949 envisaged as its Route G the electrification of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway ( LTS ), and its diversion away from Fenchurch Street to Bank and on through the Waterloo & City tunnels to Waterloo and its suburban lines.

Eastbound services ran as far as the seaside town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex from 1 June 1910 and to Shoeburyness from 1911, until 30 September 1939 ( now part of the London, Tilbury and Southend railway ).

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( operated by c2c ) passes through the borough in two places and the Great Eastern Main Line ( operated by Greater Anglia ) passes through the north of the borough serving Romford, with a branch line to Upminster.

The committee said it was " unacceptable " that the company might be able to " cling on " to its other rail franchises, including the London to Tilbury and Southend route.

* the London, Tilbury & Southend line ; and

The narrowing of the river where Tilbury now stands meant it was important in the defence of London, and Henry VIII built three blockhouses, two on the Tilbury side and another on the Gravesend side of the river, following the end of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

The M25 London Orbital Motorway, the railway line between Southend and London Fenchurch Street which provides direct access to Central London and, eventually, Stratford International Station, the Port of Tilbury and the nearby London City Airport make Thurrock an important international trade centre.

c2c ( legal name c2c Rail Limited, company no 2938993 ) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by National Express that has operated the London, Tilbury & Southend ( now Essex Thameside ) franchise since May 1996.

The London, Tilbury & Southend franchise franchise was due to commence in February 1996 but because of allegations of ticketing and settlement irregularities with the preferred bidder, Enterprise Rail, was re-tendered.

c2c operates services on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway line from London Fenchurch Street to East London and along the northern Thames Gateway area of southern Essex, including Basildon, Chafford Hundred ( for Lakeside Shopping Centre ), Tilbury and Southend-on-Sea.

In 1912, the Midland Railway purchased the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway which operated between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness, with a loop serving Tilbury.

Heathrow is London's main airport, having replaced RAF Northolt, and together with Gatwick, Southend, Stansted, Luton and London City, London is the busiest city airport system in the world by passenger traffic ( with 133, 666, 888 passengers travelling through the six airports ); and second only to New York City in terms of traffic movements.

National Rail services: Greater Anglia and London Overground regularly serve the station to London Liverpool Street, Romford, the East of England, Stansted and Southend airports, and other parts of north London.

Liverpool Street serves destinations in the East of England including Stansted airport, Southend airport, Cambridge, Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Norwich, Ipswich, Clacton-on-Sea, Chelmsford, Colchester, Braintree, Southend-on-Sea and the port of Harwich, as well as many suburban stations in north-eastern London, Essex and Hertfordshire.

In March 2011, Aer Arann launched twice daily fllghts to London Southend Airport ( Direct four days a week, and via Waterford Airport three days a week ).

Chelmsford is around 25 to 30 minutes ' drive from London Stansted Airport ( via A130 / A120 ), and London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London City, Luton and Southend airports are all within reach.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

Winding drums on the London and Blackwall Railway | London and Blackwall cable-operated railway, 1840

The station became the London terminus of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ) in 1858 ; additionally, from 1850 until the opening of Broad Street station in 1865 it was also the City terminus of the North London Railway.

It reopened on 2 June 1902 when the MDR opened the Whitechapel & Bow Railway, a joint venture with the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ).

On 14 December 2010, London Mayor Boris Johnson released an air quality strategy paper encouraging a phase-out of the oldest of the LT Cabs and proposing a £ 1m fund to encourage taxi owners to upgrade to low emission vehicles such as electric taxi cabs.

After 1923 the station came under the control of the London & North Eastern Railway until transfer to the London Passenger Transport Board ( LT ) on 14 December 1947 as part of the extension of the Central Line services of the London Underground.

File: LT steam L92 Olympia 1968. jpg | London Underground freight heads south to Lillie Bridge, 1968

Access for occasional goods services to Blackwall and North Greenwich via the North London Railway at Poplar continued until 1968, but with the closure of the docks the line was completely abandoned, leaving only the Fenchurch Street – Stepney section still in use, by the LT & SR.

Gale Street Halt had been opened on the London Tilbury & Southend ( LT & S ) line in 1926.

The London Midland & Scottish Railway ( owners of the LT & S line ) qaudrupled their line between Barking and Upminster and constructed a common station with their existing line and the new trains of the Metropolitan District Railway, opened in 1932.

File: Essex Road roundel. JPG | Platform roundel used during period of London Underground operation until 1975, now in the LT Museum.

The London Transport Museum, or LT Museum based in Covent Garden, London, seeks to conserve and explain the transport heritage of Britain's capital city.

The tank locomotive version of the Atlantic type first made its appearance in the United Kingdom ( UK ) in 1880, when William Adams designed the 1 Class T of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ).

They became particularly associated with the London, Tilbury and Southend Line ( LT & S ) working commuter services out of London until that route was electrified in 1962.

In 1933, a public corporation called the London Passenger Transport Board was created, which soon became known more commonly by its shortened title: " London Transport " ( LT ).

The line was originally built as a branch of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LT & SR ) and opened on 7 June 1893 providing the LT & SR with an inroad into Great Eastern Railway territory at Romford and a small goods yard where the branch joins the Great Eastern Main Line.

It was also used over the years to house stored vehicles for the LT museum, and again in 2000 to store additional RM's that had been acquired to supplement shortages in London.

* New Bus for London 11. 3m ( LT ) for route 38.

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The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London where they also serviced GWK and Calthorpe vehicles.

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Jimmy Hill once referred to the Riverside being " a bit like the London Palladium " as Blocks V & W ( the middle section ) are often filled with the rich and famous ( including often Al-Fayed ).

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