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 estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

The Jubilee line of the London Underground opened in 1979 from to as the first stage of an intended cross-town tube line beyond Charing Cross to south-east London.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

In 2000 there was a fatal rail crash on the line that runs through the town from London to York, in which four people lost their lives.

* The line " bloody, but unbowed " was the Daily Mirrors headline the day after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

" While Dorchester planned for a defensive war, Simcoe urged London to declare war: " Upper Canada is not to be defended by remaining within the boundary line.

Taken together on a like-for-like basis, London Underground and Docklands Light Railway operate of track, longer than the Shanghai Metro ( excluding the Shanghai Maglev line ).

Excluding the Shanghai Maglev line and the two light metro lines, the Shanghai Metro has of heavy rail rapid transit routes, compared to the London Underground's.

* Edward Watkin, responsible for the building of the Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway's " London Extension " during the 1890s, which was the last main line to be constructed into London.

At Oxford Circus the tunnel runs close to the Bakerloo line tunnel of the London Underground.

She stopped selling her handbag line and moved to London.

The earliest patent was taken out by Henry Palmer in the UK in 1821, and the design was employed at Deptford Dockyard in South-East London, and a short line for moving stone from a quarry near Cheshunt, Hertfordshire to the River Lea.

LO now also possesses some infrastructure in its own right, following the reopening of the former East London line of London Underground as the East London Railway of LO.

: Kantor, Mattis, The Jewish time line encyclopedia: A year-by-year history from Creation to the present, Jason Aronson Inc., London, 1992

At the land-end in Gallanach Bay near Oban, Scotland, the cable joined to a coaxial line carrying 900 inland and transatlantic circuits to the International Exchange in London.

In line with this initiative, the Dubai International Financial Centre was announced, offering 55. 5 % foreign ownership, no withholding tax, freehold land and office space and a tailor-made financial regulatory system with laws taken from best practice in other leading financial centres like New York, London, Zürich and Singapore.

`` Judy Garland has arrived in London.

He arrived in London in 1940 at the start of World War II.

Phillip arrived in London in May 1793.

The plague allegedly arrived with a merchant carrying a parcel of cloth sent from London, although this is a disputed point.

Constantius arrived in London to receive the victory and chose to divide the province further, into four provinces ( each with its own governor ):

He arrived in London in May 1945 intending to study at the LSE.

On 9 January 1660, Monk arrived in London and his plans were communicated.

In August 1831 Van Buren was appointed Minister to the Court of St. James's ( ambassador to Great Britain ), and he arrived in London in September.

For over one hundred years, Venetian mirrors installed in richly decorated frames served as luxury decorations for palaces throughout Europe, but the secret of the mercury process eventually arrived in London and Paris during the 17th century, due to industrial espionage.

On 10 July 1553, Lady Jane was proclaimed queen by Dudley and his supporters, and on the same day Mary's letter to the council arrived in London.

He arrived in 601 AD with a group of clergymen sent to augment the mission, and was consecrated as Bishop of London in 604.

Exactly when Mellitus and his party arrived in England is unknown, but he was certainly in the country by 604, when Augustine consecrated him as bishop in the province of the East Saxons, making Mellitus the first Bishop of London after the Roman departure ( London was the East Saxons ' capital ).

The next notable European visitors were from the London Missionary Society who arrived in 1846 on the " Messenger of Peace ".

The first missionaries from the London Missionary Society and the Marist Brothers arrived in the 1840s.

After the album was released, the band arrived in England to support Throwing Muses on the European " Sex and Death " tour — beginning at the Mean Fiddler in London.

* Catherine of Aragon 2 October 1501: arrived and was escorted to London for her marriage to Henry VIII of England

W. A. Veenhoven wrote: " The German doctor, Gustav Nachtigal, an eye-witness, believed that for every slave who arrived at a market three or four died on the way ... Keltie ( The Partition of Africa, London, 1920 ) believes that for every slave the Arabs brought to the coast at least six died on the way or during the slavers ' raid.

With his small daughters and sister Artje, Alma-Tadema arrived in London at the beginning of September 1870.

After Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu confiscated 20, 000 cases of British-owned opium in 1839, Jardine arrived in London in September, and pressed Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston for a forceful response.

The first zoo hippo in modern history was Obaysch who arrived at the London Zoo on May 25, 1850, where he attracted up to 10, 000 visitors a day and inspired a popular song, the Hippopotamus Polka.

He was assigned to the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines, expecting to be transferred shortly to the Bureau of Engineering in Washington D. C. After a trip overland across China, Burma, and India, by air across the Mideast to Athens and then London, and by ship to the U. S., Rickover arrived in Washington and took up his duties as assistant chief of the Electrical section of the Bureau of Engineering on 15 August 1939.

The movement is credited to Michael Hollingshed who arrived in America from London in 1965.

Anne and Sarah fled from Whitehall by a back staircase, and put themselves under the care of the bishop of London, spending one night in his house, and subsequently arrived at Nottingham on 1 December.

He set out for England from Scheveningen, arrived in Dover on 25 May 1660 and reached London on 29 May, his 30th birthday.