East Tilbury Level Crossing, Thurrock (Essex)

Date filmed: 10/10/2023
Videos filmed at 12:22 | 12:31 | 12:35
Route: London, Tilbury & Southend Railway
- East Tilbury Station
Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barriers crossing with CCTV (MCB-CCTV)
Location: Princess Margaret Road, East Tilbury
Trains featured:
Intro - 0:00
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Lowering 1 (0:16):
357 028 (c2c) - 1:33
2D28 London Fenchurch Street ➡ Southend Central | On-time
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Lowering 2 (2:05):
66 748 "West Burton 50" (GBRf) & Intermodal freight service - 2:51
4M47 London Gateway GBRf ➡ Hams Hall GBRf | 2 minutes late
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Lowering 3 (3:56):
357 020 (c2c) - 4:56
2D45 Southend Central ➡ London Fenchurch Street | On-time
Two local stopping 'Tilbury Loop' passenger services plus one Intermodal freight train are seen at this skewed crossing in East Tilbury by its fairly small railway station which sees half-hourly off-peak weekday services running between London and Southend via the 'long way around' past the likes of Grays and Tilbury. The freight service passed in between the two stopping passenger services and had only just recently left London Gateway port at nearby Thames Haven on its way to a national distribution centre at Hams Hall just to the north east of Birmingham, where the containers that came off of a cargo ship would be sorted and distributed to where they respectively need to be. A good few minutes separated the train gaining the road across Thames Haven Junction, where it sat for about 15 minutes, and this level crossing activating, giving plenty of warning to get ready for the activation.
Due to the skewed angle, the barriers here are fairly long and are each of different lengths on one side. One alarm, as can be heard, has become 'pitch defective' and produces a rather rough-sounding but evenly-alternating tone, with the one other alarm here producing an unusually fast tone as if it were at a half barrier level crossing when more than one train passes. Crossing operations are taken care of from a workstation in the Upminster IECC in the far East of London, as it has been the case since the line's signalling was converted to this guise in 1996.
Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear...
Open Train Times: www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: traksy.uk/live
Filmed on: Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus in 1080p 60fps
Thanks for watching!

[@NWLevelCrossings]

Brilliant Video! Really like the layout of this crossing! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much!

[@arnoldspottingvideos5269]

Great video at East Tilbury mate. Good shot of 66748 "West Burton 50" and plenty of 357s 👍👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much! Previously saw that 66 earlier in the year on a railtour.

[@NorthWestLevelCrossingsChannel]

Excellent video as usual 👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much!

[@EastAngliaLevelCrossingsUK]

Nice. I live in Essex. But sadly not in Thurrock

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks!

[@SouthWestCrossingsUK]

Great video! I do really like this crossings layout! And that faulty alarm sounds a bit like topshams faulty alarm! The other alarm sounds like its on a double stay 😂

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks very much! I do too.

[@keanubrando3228]

Nice video crossing

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much!

[@TheRealTrains806UK]

1:34 I heard someone's mother talking, it was pretty funny

[@leveltrains1295]

Nice

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks!

[@JPLCUK]

Nice video 2 faulty alarms!!!

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you! Only one seems to be faulty really, the other's just really fast.

[@TheRealTrains806UK]

Nice video and crossing! Anybody excited for 2024?

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks! I daren't think about 2024 in any great detail just yet! 😅

[@TheRealTrains806UK]

😅