Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY

LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND RAILWAY, a railway from the eastern part of the metropolis eastward, along the S border of Essex, to Southend. It deflects from the Blackwall line at Stepney; passes on to the Great Eastern at Bow station; is identical with that line nearly as far as to Ilford; goes on to the east of Purfleet; passes through Grays; and proceeds to West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort, and thence to Southend. The company was originally, in 1852, an incorporation of acquiescing shareholders on the Blackwall and the Eastern Counties; was authorized, in 1856, to form a junction between the Blackwall and the North London, and two branches. to the North Woolwich line of the Eastern Counties; and was incorporated, in 1862, into a distinct company, under the condition that the Blackwall and the Great Eastern should each nominate onethird of the board.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a railway"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Essex AncC

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