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!

god bless you for documenting all this when you had the chance

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.

Me and my mates were on one of the last trains to go here remember seeing people filming when we arrived .... great upload

oh my so sad to see a station nearly abandoned and uncared for, basically left to rot. eerie and so hollow.

Wow just look at the size of that place! Great video. Very atmospheric with the distant sound of children.

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.

I have dreamed many times of Class 312s being in service again.

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.

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.

Great footage , and the hum from the OHL induction with your camera

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.

Fantastic upload. Thank you 👍🙂

this is a great channel i love to watch the 1980s and 90s trains

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

Very nice to see cheers Steve ..

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.

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.

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

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.....

Very interesting video 👍🏻

The view inside the station reminded me off when the old Morecambe station was been rundown ready for closure,very similar in all aspects.

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.

Excellent

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

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.

Fond memories of working at Tilbury Riverside in the mid 1970s.

My dad worked there as a shunter for a while before being a guard

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.

Tragedy 😢

I hope my snaps serve as historical sources in 2077

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).. .. . .

310/312 units the best ever made in my opinion.

Didn't BR try to close this station at least twice before 1992.

They should reopen this section.

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?

Late 1992 was a poor time for everything what with Black Monday and the pit closure bombshell that came afterwards.

Why did they close it? Was it least used? Also it looks very eerie and very apocalyptic.

Jesus. Looks like Chernobyl Great video if not a iittle depressing. Didn't those 312 units used to run from King Cross to Royston?

hi, sad to see this station go, blunderheads and blockheads responsible for this and Broad st closure

Blimey, look at all the bashers flailing their arms on the first train!