This is the mainline. There is also a branch line service too.

When i hear the tones of "dreadful entrance hall" I am back in the head's study for a carpeting. Somebody out there must be trembling!

Westcliff is definitely not the posh bit of Southend - Thorpe Bay is

Thanks for another fantastic video! I've ridden on the c2c sets a few times now, and they feel quite outdated! Thank you for highlighting the dingy atmosphere of Fenchurch Street. It's Sad as it used to be a lovely place.

Oooh I know bits of this line well (Barking to Fenchurch commute occasionally). Got to agree with your views on Fenchurch station building - too grim. Thanks for the tip off about the Senior Rover tix, I shall investigate! Cheers.

We used to take the C2C from Limehouse to Chalkwell all the time in the summer when I was a kid. The rides that are next to the pier in Southend used to be called Peter Pans Playground 😂. I can still remember the excitment of the train journey.

I’ve been on c2c many times and the 4-Car Class 357 Electrostars are very nice trains. Also c2c have ordered 12 new 5-Car Class 720/6 Aventra trains that is expected to enter service sometime this year.

Much enjoyed. Used this line when I was a young seaman, 60 years ago! Love your vids. Cheers from Oz.

The senior rover is only £7 if you don’t need the travel card zones from Fenchurch Street to Upminster or Rainham (Essex), e.g. if you have a 60 + Oyster card or Freedom Pass. Fenchurch Street is one of my least used London Termini, the other is Cannon Street. I do remember the old Fenchurch Street station however, and it too was pretty grim.

Yes, I did enjoy that - thank you for the video. Took me back to my last trip to Southend - many years ago - when I took the ferry from Gravesend to Tilbury Riverside, which still had trains at that point!

Beautiful journey. Thank you

I did enjoy it, thank you

I be looking forward to the Class 720/6 Aventra trains coming into service on c2c which won’t replace the Class 357. And the Class 387/3 have been transferred to Great Northern.

Barking to Fenchurch St and back each while the central line was out in 2003 due to falling motors. Then a special bus (fleets of them) to South Woodford. Very well organised, but very lengthy journey.

CORRECTION: The line from Shoeburyness to Pig's Bay MOD did NOT go via the passenger station at Shoeburyness. This was always the terminal. The line to Pig's Bay diverged short of where the old Signalbox and the sidings now stand, and cross the road, which is signposted to East Beach. It continued for a couple of miles. I did the only passenger train to reach the bufferstops at Pig's Bay. A charter from the Western Region, that I joined at London PADDINGTON before it travelled via the Tottenham and Hampstead Joint (Goblin). If you walk along the East Beach you will find a disused 2ft gauge railway. The base at Pig's Bay used to have a V2 rocket as the gate guardian pointing skywards. All hush hush, everyone knew it was a missile testing facility, from the sound alone !

No toilet review. Bliss.

Thanks for such lovely and regular content - always a treat :) However, is it not pronounced "Sarfend" ...?

9:46 - Westcliff and posh do not and never will go in the same sentence.

@Johny Hoover Travels | So remember yesterday how I was ranting about EMR's 172's & how they look like 377s? While C2C made their 377's look like 172's yes I know their 357's but their still electro-stars and still are bombardier Adtranz.

I dare you to do the same bideo but you are coming from Shoeburyness and terminate a Liverpool Street Also talk about some of the smaller details