Exploring Tilbury Riverside
The idea was simple. I would walk from Tilbury Town station to the site of the former Tilbury Riverside station and have a look at the London Cruise Terminal and Tilbury Fort, before taking a ferry to Gravesend to come home.
But things didn’t quite work out as planned, as although I had a good walk in the wind to river, that wind was so bad the ferries had got themselves cancelled.
But I did find a nice place with a welcoming pub to go to in better weather!
The area does need a bit of improvement.
- The London Cruise Terminal looks as welcoming as a prison from the outside.
- Connections to Tilbury Town station are simple and spasmodic.
- Tilbury Fort certainly needed some more information.
- The chimneys behind the Fort are those of the Tilbury B power station, which burns biomass.
- The Ferry Terminal to Gravesend was also short of information. Especially, something like an electronic Next Ferry Indicator.
- There needs to be extension of the pedestrian routes.
- It would also help, if the trucks kept to the speed limit.
But most importantly, the area would get more visitors if Tilbury Riverside station was still being used.
Failing that a decent cycle route, with bicycle hire stations at either end.
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Tilbury and Gravesend are a deeply depressed area, never recovering from the loss of London east orbital status when the Dartford tunnel was opened.
I was advised by an old man gardening in a village near Tilbury to avoid cycling through as ‘they would knock me off and steal my bike’.
Essex police will tell you that the criminals in Tilbury are the stupidest in Essex.
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