NEW LANDING STAGE
OPENING AT TILBURY
British Official Wireless. (Received 17th May, 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, 16th May,
The Port of London's now passenger landing stage at Tilbury was officially opened by the Prime Minister to-day. The landing stage is 1142 feet long and 80 feet wide, floating on sixty-three huge steel pontoons and carrying a double-deck building 500 feet long. Five bridges connect the shore with the stage, which projects 370 feet from the river bank and rises and falls ■with the tide, this movement averaging 21 feet. The scheme cost £700,000, and will make possible a discontinuance of the practice of carrying passengers by tender between the shore and vessels lying in the river. Liners will now be- able to lie alongside at any tide. Such of the cable news on this page as is so headed has appeared In "The Times" and is cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions arß not those or "The Times' unless expressly stated Jo bo so, *
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 9
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173NEW LANDING STAGE Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 9
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