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ABOVE: Passenger liners from around the world
once called at the Tilbury Docks (now the London International Cruise Terminal).
Port of Tilbury (London)
Continued
from: Zeebrugge shore
excursions
Tilbury, 30 miles or 41 km downstream from London on the north
bank of the Thames estuary, has been an international port since the 1850s. From
1886 until 1990, trains connected the pier's Tilbury Riverside Station to
London's Fenchurch Street Station. The nearest railroad connection is now a
taxi ride away, but a
passenger ferry still runs from Tilbury Pier to Gravesend on the river's south
bank.
When the Silver Whisper arrived at the London
International Cruise Terminal on August 21, 2003, it was the first time we'd
seen Tilbury since the late 1970s, when we visited on Baltic Shipping Line's
Mikhail Lermontov (now on the bottom of the sea off New Zealand) and
Alexandr Pushkin (which has since been rebuilt as the cruise ship Marco
Polo of Orient Lines). The old brick terminal looked about the same as it
had 25 years earlier, and stained-glass windows were still visible in the
Customs Hall.
For more
port information, see:
London Cruise
Terminal
Forth
Ports: Port of Tilbury
Next page:
Tilbury (London) disembarkation
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