Gravesend–Tilbury Ferry

The Gravesend - Tilbury ferry is a ferry east of London for the passenger in the mouth region of the Thames. It connects Gravesend in Kent on the south side of Tilbury in Essex on the north side and runs Mondays to Saturdays every 30 minutes from about 6:00 clock bis 19:00 clock. Operating company is the Lower Thames & Medway Passenger Boat Company. The operation is subsidized part of the county of Kent and administration of the municipality of Thurrock, to the Tilbury.

History

Sailing and rowing boats plying between Gravesend and Tilbury, until they were in 1855 replaced by steamships. 1862 took over the railway company London, Tilbury and Southend Railway ( LTSR ) operation. In 1912, the LTSR on the Midland Railway. 1923, the Midland Railway of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS ) was taken. This continued from 1924 or 1927, two car ferries a. British Rail, which took the place of the LMS in 1948, gave the Automobilfährverkehr 1961 and was limited to the passenger.

1979, the ferry service was privatized and first performed by Sealink. This company came in 1984 in the possession of Sea Containers and was taken over in 1990 by the Stena Line. A year later came the Stena Line this participation in the White Horse Ferries from. The latter went bankrupt in 2000, since then the ferry owned by the public Lower Thames & Medway Passenger Boat Company.