British Rail Network SouthEast-Last Day of Tilbury Riverside Station
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- Опубліковано 21 лис 2020
- It's back to a cold 28th November 1992 for this upload, and to Tilbury Riverside on its last evening. We see views inside the station building, the platform area outside and the class 312 EMUs (787 & 788) that were working the service on this last day. The 28th was a Saturday, there was no Sunday service and the station closed on Monday 30th. The station building survives, the platform area is now a cra parking area and the site of the old Tilbury steam shed became a freight terminal which is now also out of use. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!
I've said it before but I'll say it again: thank God you took so many video's back in the day. In hindsight, I would have spent a lot more time recording back in the 80s. I'm so glad that you did!
Thank you.....I was very desperatly filming all i could that interested me that was being replaced, i'm pleased others find it of interest as well! When i started filming in 1985 i would never have dreamed how it could be seen worldwide as it is now.....and that others find it as interesting as i did back then......keep watching as i still have plenty more....
So many good memories here. Day trips to Southend (Chalkwell) after coming off the busy Gravesend ferry, usually Edith or Rose, both the steam and deisel versions. Greeted by a Standard Class 4 tank simmering at the terminal end. It went over to DMU when electrification took place so a race to the front (finding it was sometimes 1st Class), then EMUs. Thank goodness I did not witness it's decline.
god bless you for documenting all this when you had the chance
That's why i got the camera in 1985. Things i liked and grew up with were being replaced fast and i wanted to capture as much as i could, shift work permitting!
Me and my mates were on one of the last trains to go here remember seeing people filming when we arrived .... great upload
I can't be sure if i saw the last train. I have afeeling Saturday was the last day of full service and perhaps a special ran in on the Sunday..... The mists of time are clouding over.....lol
Wow just look at the size of that place!
Great video.
Very atmospheric with the distant sound of children.
back in the day it was quite busy what with ocean liners picking up there! Used to have loco hauled specials from St Pancras to meet the ships.....
oh my so sad to see a station nearly abandoned and uncared for, basically left to rot. eerie and so hollow.
Since this year's advent of germfare, my perversion at imagining installations all about us in states of advanced disrepair - _depuis mes escapades à Détroit_ - has *m u s h r o o m e d* 🍄
BR's way of saying they wanted to close the place.....
Excellent video. I used to use this station right up until the end from the late 80's until 1992, and then catch the ferry to Gravesend to visit my Grand father. It's how I remember it always being huge and empty. I do remember they stored alot of units in the overgrown platforms as well, although maybe just waiting for the evening peak as it would have always been a week day off peak that I was there.
By the late 1980s the train crew depot there had shut and the sidings unused. They did use them to store the 302s as they were withdrawn from service around the time you mention though....
I have dreamed many times of Class 312s being in service again.
i remember this station well. Back in the 1960's as a child we used to travel by train from Dartford for a day out in Southend via Gravesend and the Tilbury ferry.
I can recall Soviet ocean liners docked at Tilbury and Liverpool Street bound boat trains waiting in the station at Tilbury Riverside.
The closure of this station has put an end to the various journeys from the South of the river to destinations in Essex which could be made via the ferry and Tilbury Riverside station and the possibility of passengers from Kent travelling to London Fenchurch Street as an alternative to Charing Cross/Cannon Street.
In the 1970s the Tilbury Loop services all reversed at Riverside Station apart from a couple of peak hours ones that went fast on the avoiding lines. There was even a traincrew depot here, the building to the left of the train when its in the platform here. After it had closed the signal box stayed open as it controlled the main line and fringed with Grays and Stanford-Le-Hope. It finally went when the area was resignalled and it all moved to Upminster IECC. Tilbuty Town isn't too far from Riverside Station and i beieve a bus service still runs as per act of parliament that closed the line!
Great video. In the final years, there used to be an Upminster-Ockendon-Grays service that was extended to Tilbury Town and Tilbury Riverside. But the very rare train was the one per day service, that used to run in the evening, and which stopped running even before then, that did the East Tilbury to Tilbury Riverside curve. It was an Up service from either Shoeburyness / Southend Central / Leigh on Sea or Pitsea to Tilbury Riverside, and it returned ecs (empty), so you could only do this east to south curve in one direction. But that was back in the days of Class 302s. Sadly I never did the line in his heyday when services were frequent and not endangered.
That service was a 'Paliamentary' service, run in order to avoid having to go through the closure proceedure for that small stretch of line. Up until they closed Tilbury Traincrew Depot there, all bar a few peak hour trains ran via Riverside so i have done the curve all ways up back in the day. As you said back then it was 302s with 308s running all the services....happy days!
I used to be a guard on the trains at Tilbury Riverside
The station used to have a cafe and br club called the bomb crater
Fantastic upload. Thank you 👍🙂
Great footage , and the hum from the OHL induction with your camera
There's some immense power up in them there wires......I was always very wary of them working on locos. When i stood in the cab doorway of a class 37 my head was above the little orange cantrail stripe, you really were closed to death that's for sure! I was always very respectful of the 25Kv.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus within my railway career , I worked at Romford OHL as a lineman ,
Very nice to see cheers Steve ..
Thank you......
this is a great channel i love to watch the 1980s and 90s trains
Thank you....i still ahve a lot to upload from times past......
The building has had a new roof and lots of renovation work done so much so I actually work sometimes in this building for the Port of Tilbury now in 2021
That's nice to know, it was a lovely 1930s LMS station that was going to ruin......thanks for the info.
What a wonderful channel this is many thanks. It's amazing the station survived as long as it did, always seemed deserted when I passed through. Especially considering the need for reversal each time.
At one time all trains (apart from a couple of peak hours trains that ran direst) all trains ran via Riverside. When Tilbury Traincrew Depot closed i think it was then changed to a shuttle service. I have used this route to go to Gravesend in the past rather than crossing at Woolwich although a good, storming run with anEPB was always good fun!
Very interesting video 👍🏻
As a kid I remember trains at Barking - destination Tilbury. Some years later I worked at Tilbury and was surprised to see the station closed, although there was a train there that looked like it was abandoned? Was all quite spooky, how did a town with its own docks become so run down they even closed the station? But Thatcher was around at that time.....
Tilbury still has two stations to this day, Tilbury Town and East Tilbury. Tilbury Docks is a big container port whereas Riverside was more for ocean liners, the traffic of which has long disapeared. All that was left was the Gravesend Ferry that still runs but carries few people. The writing was on the wall when BR shut the traincrew depot down that was at Riverside. In steam days there was a shed in the triangle of lines just north of the station.
Another great video, Soi. Thank you for being there at the time and uploading it here now for future railway historians and for people like us reminiscing about our younger years. Again, thanks matey.
My pleasure....i used to get shouted at by haulage cranks in times past but as well as logs of moves (i too do haulage) i have the film to look back on!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus exactly. Just as in one of my hobbies, amateur radio, I still keep a log even though it's no longer a legal requirement to do so 😀 It's nice to have something to look back on!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Makes you wonder if any of the people who hurled abuse in period, now watch your videos?
Many thanks for posting this. Once again, plenty of memories: I was there on the same day, though at lunchtime when I think there were more enthusiasts around. It's good to be reminded of the class 310 units too - they only had a few more years to go at that point as well.
I seem to recall the 310 & 312s survived until the late 1990s & beyond. Wasn't it the 357s that replaced them?......
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus I guess it would be. My last ride on a 310 was in 1997 (OK, a bit more than "a few years"), but they seem to have stayed around until after 2000. And the 312s definitely lasted longer.
The view inside the station reminded me off when the old Morecambe station was been rundown ready for closure,very similar in all aspects.
BR were good at that. Anything they wanted rid of was left to rot basically! Look at the S&C battle in the 1980s, a very rundown line back then.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus shame I was too young to take any pictures but now I’d have taken loads off the old station inside,what’s left is now a pub and is full of railway memorabilia on the walls,at least it’s past hasn’t been forgotten at least.
@@robc9845 thanks for the info....I may go to Gravesend that way when we are allowed to live as human beings again, i'll check the pub out!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus just to let you know I was on about the old Morecambe station been a pub.
@@robc9845 Ah! Yes, that sounded a bit lively for the Tilbury Ferry terminal! But i will still do a ferry trip when i'm able, thanks for putting me straight!
The 1854 opening date doesn't match the 1930s architecture. Tilbury Riverside is almost city terminus size. A floating dock was opened in 1930 to allow ocean liners to enter at all stages of the tide, which may have coincided with the development of the station as a major connection. Great footage of the end of an era, Soi.
Yes, it has a very 1930s feel to it. And i would imagine it was the boat trains that it was rebuilt for, specials used to run from St Pancras even in diesel days, i have seen pics of class 24s on long coaching stock working to here via Kentish Town, South Tottenham & Leytonstone High Road.
Excellent
Thank you.....
I find it amazing even before camera phones all the glory hunters on the network. Nobody ever gave to shoots for a class 310 all them years ago .every time I ever mentioned a 310 the bashers said I wasn't a real rail fan
I used to concentrate on locos but filmed all other trains that were about.... I wish i did the same with buses rather than just film Routemasters but such is life.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus we all do the same my friend I wish I filmed the Leyland nationals around Birmingham but at the time I just took them for granted 👍
service trains was much reduced in 1990 as only trains via the branch to Upminster used the station regularly, all others missing out the station by using the north side of the triangle.
Yes, they shut the train crew depot at the same time from what i remember. And apart from the Upminster shuttles, i recall a morning Up working, and an evening Down working that still reversed here probably to avoid a closure notice for the west curve......
Fond memories of working at Tilbury Riverside in the mid 1970s.
I remember going to Southend via the loop line at times in the 1970s and the reversal at Riverside. As an aside, i remember Basildon station being built on my Southend trips as well!
My dad worked there as a shunter for a while before being a guard
Probably knew my dad's mate who was a signalman on the LTS line back then.....
Tragedy 😢
Not many passengers left by then, just a few for the Gravesend ferry.......
Thanks for the film. Did you record any of the track removal? Plenty still in place for such a station with little traffic. I guess the rake of vacuum braked engineers wagons are there for that reason.
No, i never went back for the destruction. Not sure about the ballast wagons. Vehicles like that were dumped all over BR at the time just waiting for the scrap man. Sometimes engineers trains would be run out on a Saturday morning and stabled somewhere for work Sat night and Sunday, especially if there was a block on somewhere on line of route and an engineers train couldn't get out of the engineers yard (perhaps a big block at Stratford, that would stop trains getting out of Leyton Engineers Depot, or the ballast hole, as it was known locally!)
oo la..I must be s o out of touch with railways, because here I now find me asking myself whether there indeed be tell-tale signs of that station being terminal before your eventually spinning around there to revealing tail tracking (buffers).. .. . .
lol.......
I hope my snaps serve as historical sources in 2077
I would think so although lots of people film now unlike in times past when camera's were a very expensive item. My first vid cam was £1300.00.......
Didn't BR try to close this station at least twice before 1992.
It wouldn't surprise me.....
I'm not an expert but why was the overhead gear buzzing so loudly? was it simply decayed to a point where the voltage wasnt consistent?
Just a damp, winters day. I have heard similar when standing on the District Line platforms like Dagenham Heathway, where the LTS overheads were buzzing well on damp days......
310/312 units the best ever made in my opinion.
Debatable....but they were good solid units and i always enjoyed driving the 312s on the few jobs we had at my depot back in the aerly 1990s.....
And they were really nice to drive as well. Nice and spacious
Why did they close it? Was it least used? Also it looks very eerie and very apocalyptic.
It was very poorly used, Hardly any passengers at all, even during peak hours, and trains wasted several minutes having to reverse on the triangle, and was a waste of money keeping it open, I believe it was in the end unstaffed and didn't actually serve anything/anywhere bar the tilbury/gravesend ferry, it main source of its somewhat meagre traffic
@@Keithbarber Wow, I wonder what purpose did it serve in the first place if it was so disused?
Just to add to the thorough reason already given, the Dartford Crossing had all but taken all the traffic from the Thames Ferry Crossing when opened. This saw a thorough drop likewise in Fareguests for Tilbury Riverside Stn.
@@nathanw9770 when it was built, it was very well used, but declined in the 1960s onwards as described in other comments by robotnik
Anything left there for freight now or all flattened?
Late 1992 was a poor time for everything what with Black Monday and the pit closure bombshell that came afterwards.
Yes, gloomy times all around......
They should reopen this section.
All built over now. Part was used for a freight terminal but i don't think any trains run from there any more.....
Jesus. Looks like Chernobyl Great video if not a iittle depressing. Didn't those 312 units used to run from King Cross to Royston?
Yes, the first batch worked from the Cross on the Royston service while some later ones were new to the Great Eastern. I think four were delivered to the LMR for work around Birmingham?....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Never saw them around Brum but I did clear the 310's and 304's
@@johnyoungieyoung123 There were four of them numbered 201 to 204. Unit 204 became the yellow peril as seen here ua-cam.com/video/VSAAewosATM/v-deo.html
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus interesting as I was around in 86 and don't remember them. Bescot back in the day was excellent. I'd toodle out there from Cov on a Sunday and walk all over the Depot and stabling point. Nobody would say a word. Great days.
hi, sad to see this station go, blunderheads and blockheads responsible for this and Broad st closure
What? 2 stations that no-one used?
Blimey, look at all the bashers flailing their arms on the first train!