London, Tilbury and Southend Railway

London Fenchurch Street - Shoeburyness
Route length:	65 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Dual track :	Yes
Legend London Fenchurch Street Minories 1840–1854 (1987 as Tower Gateway ) reopened for the DLR Leman Street 1877-1941 Cannon Street Road 1840-1848 Shadwell only ELL & DLR platforms London and Blackwall Railway 1840–1970 (today part of the DLR) Limehouse Burdett Road 1852-1941 District & H&C Lines from Aldgate East London Liverpool Street Great Eastern Main Line (some c2c trains to / from Liverpool Street) Bromley-by-Bow West Ham Stratford Plaistow Upton Park East Ham East Ham Depot of the c2c Maryland Forest Gate GOBLIN from Gospel Oak (London Overground) Barking end of H&C Line / LO Upney Becontree Dagenham Dock medium term end point of the LO trains from Gospel Oak Dagenham Heathway Dagenham East Rainham Elm Park Hornchurch Upminster Bridge Romford Great Eastern Main Line to Norwich Upminster End District Line Ockendon Chafford Hundred Grays Tilbury Town Tilbury Riverside closed in 1993 Tilbury Low Street East Tilbury Stanford-le-Hope West Horndon Laindon Basildon Pitsea Benfleet Leigh-on-Sea Chalkwell Westcliff Southend-on-Sea Central Southend-on-Sea East Thorpe Bay Shoeburyness

The London, Tilbury and Southend Railway is a railway line that connects London's terminus Fenchurch Street with east London, Thames Gateway , and south Essex . The route is operated by the c2c railway company , which is itself a subsidiary of the National Express Group .

history

The construction of the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) line was decided in 1852 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom . The section Fenchurch Street Limehouse was opened in 1840 by the London and Blackwall Railway .

The first section of the route between Forest Gate (on the Great Eastern Main Line ) and Tilbury opened on April 13, 1854. The trains ran via Stratford to Fenchurch Street and Bishopsgate, the predecessor of Liverpool Street . In 1856 the line was extended to Southend-on-Sea . In 1858 a shortcut between Burdett Road (near Limehouse ) and Barking went into operation. The Barking - GEML connection was not interrupted, it is now part of the London Overground route to Gospel Oak and serves as a diversion at construction sites so that the c2c trains can travel to Liverpool Street instead of Fenchurch Street. The same applies to the Fenchurch Street – GEML connection. Since then, all c2c trains have been running from / to Fenchurch Street as a rule, only in the morning and in the evening additional amplifier trains are run from / to Liverpool Street, as Fenchurch Street is congested at these times.

In 1884 the line to Shoeburyness was extended and in 1888 a more direct line was opened between Barking and Pitsea via Upminster , but the existing line continued to operate. In 1892 the connection Upminster – Grays followed, which continued northwards to GEML station Romford .

In 1902 the Metropolitan District Railway was extended from Whitechapel to Upminster. It used the LT&SR tracks between Bromley-by-Bow and Upminster. In 1905, in the course of electrification, the underground service between East Ham and Upminster was stopped, and after various delays due to the First World War, it was not returned to Upminster until 1932, with numerous new stations being built. In 1941 all stops between Fenchurch Street and Bromley-by-Bow with the exception of Limehouse were closed. In 1962 all train stations between Limehouse and Upminster (except Barking) were closed, from now on they were only served by the London Underground . In 1974 the so-called New Town Basildon was connected to the line via a train station. In 1999 West Ham station got back the LT&SR platforms, which had been demolished in 1962, in order to guarantee the possibility of transferring the LT&SR to the new eastward extension of the Jubilee Line .

In 1958, a rear-end collision at Dagenham East station claimed ten lives.

With the privatization of British Rail , the route was initially transferred to Railtrack , which outsourced the operation to Prism Rail . The route was marketed under the name LTS Rail . After the Railtrack collapse in 2002, Network Rail took over the infrastructure, and the National Express Group carried out operations after taking over Prism Rail in 2000. In 2002 the brand c2c , which exists today, was introduced. Since the National Express was awarded the contract to operate on the Great Eastern Main Line (under the brand name National Express East Anglia ), it has run various LT&SR trains to Liverpool Street instead of Fenchurch Street. This is especially true at peak times and during construction work. Using the old routes from 1854, diverted trains to Stratford can be re-threaded into the original line. In December 2009, the train run to / from Liverpool Street was reduced to one train pair a day, the remaining trains run exclusively from / from Fenchurch Street.

future

All platforms up to Tilbury are to be extended so that trains with up to 12 cars can also stop. The new deep-sea container port London Gateway in Thurrock is to have a rail link by 2015.

business

Outside the rush hour , the following routes operate, all operated by c2c:

• 2 × per hour
  • Fenchurch Street - Basildon - Shoeburyness; with no stops in Limehouse, West Horndon and Pitsea
  • Fenchurch Street - Basildon - Shoeburyness; Stop at all stations
  • Fenchurch Street - Ockendon - Southend Central; Stop at all stations
  • Fenchurch Street - Rainham - Grays; Stop at all stations

Up to 20 trains an hour run to Fenchurch Street during rush hour, and the station's four platforms are bursting at the seams.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.barking-dagenham.gov.uk/4-heritage/local-history/information-sheets/pdf/info-sheet-10.pdf&date = 2010-02-11 + 07: 14: 45
2. ↑ Accident report (English) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
3. ↑ http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/content/download/15798/201887/file/Complete+Timetable.pdf