TILBURY DOCKS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1929, Page 2

TILBURY DOCKS

NEW ENTRANCE LOCK. (British Official Wireless.) , RUGBY',;• September . 26. The new entrance lock at Tilbury Docks on the Thames, 26 miles below London Bridge, which will enable the biggest vessels afloat to enter the docks, will be opened this afternoon in the presence of engineers from many distant parts of the world.

The construction of the new entrance to the docks ( is one otf a series of important improvement works at the London docks undertaken during the last five years. The new entrance dock is 1000 feet long, 110 feet wide, and has a depth of 45£ feet of water at high tide.

Other improvements which are in progress will make Tilbury still more attractive to the biggest shipping. These works include the construction of new dry. docks 750 feet long and 110 feet wide opening out of the main dock, and the transferance of railways, -for goods and passenger traffic, to south of the main dock, it is likely, too, that the new landing stage will be available in the near future, and this will mean a saving of/time to most liners.

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