Tilbury Town railway station is on a loop line of the

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, serving the town of

Tilbury Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England. The present town was established as separate settlement in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary. It contains a 16th century fort and an ancie ...

, Essex. It is down the line from London Fenchurch Street via and it is situated between and . Its three-letter station code is TIL. The station was opened on 15 June 1885 with the name Tilbury Dock by the

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. It was renamed Tilbury Town on 3 August 1934. It is on a link known as the Tilbury Loop, which joins the main line at the London end at and at the country end at . A bus link is provided for the Gravesend ferry, replacing the rail link to which was closed in 1992. Today, the station and all trains serving it are operated by

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Services

The typical off-peak service consists of: *2 trains per hour (tph) to London Fenchurch Street via ; *2 tph to Southend Central.

In popular culture

The station plays two roles in the 2009 film ''

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'' – it appears in the film, and the star,

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, was recruited after a scout saw her arguing with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town station. The station and its environs in the Victorian era are also mentioned briefly in Robert Roberts' 1895 book ''Diary of a Voyage to Australia, New Zealand, and Other Lands'', written a mere 10 years after the station opened.

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