The station was opened on 17 April 1886 by the London and St Katharine Dock Company and was named Tilbury Tidal Basin.
Its only passenger services were boat trains connecting with Liners using the basin.
The service was not successful and after December 1906 passenger traffic instead run to Tilbury Riverside.
[1] It was reopened and refurbished and renamed Tilbury Marine by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) on 15 May 1927 in connection with its new Dunkirk service.
This included through coaches to Bradford and Manchester via the LMS route from St Pancras.