Port of Tilbury
Last updated 25 May 2026
Forth Ports-owned multi-purpose port on the north bank of the Thames in Essex. Handles containers, paper and forest products, grain and aggregates by rail, with terminals operated by Forth Ports and concessionaires including London Container Terminal.
| Active since | — |
| Operating company | Forth Ports |
| Rail terminals |
Tilbury container and rail terminals
(TLBYPFL (Freightliner), TLBYTCG, TLBYTCS)
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| Branch-line capacity | Tilbury Riverside branch — shared access via the London, Tilbury and Southend line |
| Network constraints | London, Tilbury and Southend line capacity; routing via Forest Gate / Barking for northbound moves |
| Trailing 12-period A2F | Fewer than 12 closed periods of clean data on record — available once the pipeline reaches 12 complete periods. |
Latest period summary
Port of Tilbury received 29 monitored inbound services in Period 2 2026-27 — a small monitored sample. 97% of 29 completed arrivals were within 15 minutes of schedule (Wilson 90% interval 86%–99%), against a national freight benchmark of 90% over 12,042 completed services. The cancellation rate was 0% across 29 scheduled paths. PRELIMINARY at T+2; FINAL re-publication at T+35 after Network Rail's batch correction.
Reports
Operators calling
Corridors served
- Gospel Oak to Barking Line
Inland destinations
Methodology & sources
All figures derive from Network Rail's NROD TRUST feed, processed via the Gauge Intelligence ingest pipeline. Period definitions, A2F (Arrival to Fifteen), the Wilson 90% interval, daily anomaly rules, cross-view reconciliation, and delay attribution are documented at:
Data window — period boundaries and the data-as-of cutoff
League tables — cross-view reconciliation across the four analytical views
Anomaly detection — daily A2F SPC rules
Delay attribution — DAPR cause-code breakdown
Forecasting — prediction intervals and possession-exposure estimates
The Port of Tilbury is Forth Ports’ principal English asset, a multi-purpose port on the Thames in Essex handling containers, forest products, grain, and construction materials. Freightliner operates the principal rail container terminal on site, with northbound flows routed via the London, Tilbury and Southend line and the Gospel Oak to Barking corridor.
Commercial licence
Four derivations are released to commercial-licence subscribers rather than the public archive. Each one reconciles TRUST source-data against Network Rail's Historic Delay Attribution record independently, not republished from public statistics.
- Schedule 8 net position
- Why late — delay attribution
- Schedule 4 possession exposure
- Path utilisation — corridor breakdown
Available under commercial licence. Contact [email protected] for subscription terms.