Trains to Southend Central - Station Details and further Information on Southend Central Train Services
Southend Central is a train station on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. Train services are provided by the National Express Group train operating company c2c. It is located in Southend Town Centre on Clifftown Road in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, SS1 1AB, just off the middle of Southend High Street and down the road from Southend Travel Centre with easy access to bus services and South East Essex College and the University of Essex Southend Campus, to which it is adjacent. It was opened in 1856 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and was the original eastern terminus of the line, which was later extended to Shoeburyness train station. It has four platforms:
Platform 1 is a rarely-used bay platform
Platform 2 has Shoeburyness-bound services from London
Platform 3 has (usually fast) London-bound services from Shoeburyness
Platform 4 is a bay platform with (usually slow) London-bound services departing from Southend Central which take the longer route via Grays and Ockendon and terminating services from London.
It has a partially sheltered bicycle storage rack for 30 bikes and 150 car parking spaces but no disabled spaces. It is used by around 10,500 people every day.
Southend Victoria train station, the Southend terminus of the Great Eastern Main Line operated by c2c's National Express Group sister company National Express East Anglia, is also located in Southend-on-Sea Town Centre. |