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 result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

Another piece of evidence appears in a dispatch from Bonn in The Observer ( London ).

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

I told him you are on orders from the Home Army to get inside Majdanek so you can make a report to the government in exile in London ''.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Dickens, for excellent psychological reasons, never fully reveals Magwitch's felonious past, but Pip, at the convict's climactic reappearance in London, shrinks from clasping a hand which he fears `` might be stained with blood ''.

The respectability which money confers implies a different etiquette, and, upon taking up the life of a London gentleman, Pip must learn from Herbert Pocket that `` the spoon is not generally used over-hand, but under ''.

To reduce further the flow of goods from England, the Company's local officials asked that its London authorities refrain from forwarding any more trade goods to these men.

John, an engineer and anthropologist with a doctorate from the London School of Economics, headed the rural development division of USOM, the United States Operations Mission administering U.S. aid.

There was Sounder, too, also a veteran of the North Rim, and Rastus and the Rake from a pack of English fox-hounds, and a collie from a London pound, and Simba, a terrier.

Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.

The response from London, Paris and Bonn was favorable.

He doesn't really need the immense sum of money ( probably converted from American gold on the London Exchange ) he makes them pay.

There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.

This is not only a compliment to Mijbil, of whom there are a fine series of photographs and drawings in the book, but to the author who has catalogued the saga of a frightened otter cub's journey by plane from Iraq to London, then by train ( where he lay curled in the wash basin playing with the water tap ) to Camusfearna, with affectionate detail.

And please it did, in every sense of the word, for it had the audience shouting much of the time in a manner far from typical of London audiences.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

These lampoons include appealing to the authority of " a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London " and " the famous Psalmanazar, a native of the island Formosa " ( who had already confessed to not being from Formosa in 1706 ).

*, formerly HMS Atlas, used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, London from 1881-1904

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