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Southend-on-Sea in Essex has had a pier associated with
it since 1830. The current structure in 1.38 miles long and completed
in 1889 with subsequent pier head extensions in the 1920s. It was one
of the earliest places in Britain to operate an electric tramway,
namely a 3ft 6ins gauge line running 1.25 miles along the pier from
1890 until 1978, originally using trains of 4-wheel 'Toastrack' trams
and replaced in 1949 by four trains of 7-car long 4-wheeled saloons.
Replaced in 1986 by a 3 feet gauge line operated by two
7-car 55hp diesel units built by Severn Lamb and a 3-axle battery
railcar for winter use. Southend Pier is officially 'The Longest
Pleasure Pier in the World' and has had three major fires - the most
recent was October 2005 destroying the Pier Head (or South) railway
station and surrounding shops, bars and restaurants. Part of the pier
head walkway now doubles as the station platform.
Various items of the pier's history, including an
original 1890 'Toastrack' car and 1949-built PCC-influenced cars are
preserved in the Southend Pier Museum below the Shore (or North)
Railway Station.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 4/10/2009
Notes: Train B 'Sir William Heygate' leaving shore end tunnel with the pier head just over 1 mile in the distance.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 4/10/2009
Notes: Train B 'Sir William Heygate' bowling along Southend Pier on an overcast Good Friday.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/6/2007
Notes: Newly delivered bogie flat car at the old Pier Head Station site (officially known as South Station). The previous flat car was a glass fibre vehicle which melted without trace in the October 2005 fire.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 8/17/2007
Notes: 1949-built 3ft 6in gauge Motor Car 8 built by AC Cars Ltd for the electric railway and converted in 1970 to a Motor Flat Wagon. Withdrawn in 1978, stored at North Wales Tramway Museum site at Tal-y-Cafn, now at Mangapps Farm Railway Museum, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: Mid-point passing loop showing steel-sleepered track, signalling and illuminations.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: 1986 Severn-Lamb 7-car diesel train B at the temporary South (Pier Head) station which is shared with the walkway.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: One of the 1986 built Severn-Lamb diesel train in new blue livery so named after the Mayor of Southend of the 1830's who proposed the original Southend Pier.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Cliff Lift
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: The only funicular railway in Eastern England is the Southend Cliff Lift, built in 1912, it is 130 feet long and climbs 57 feet. The single car runs on 4ft 6in gauge track with a 1ft 9in gauge counterbalance beneath the main track.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: Shore Station (officially known as North Station) with train A named Sir John Betjeman in platform.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Cliff Lift
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: Cliff lift car, closeup.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 10/7/2006
Notes: Train in north station.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Photo by: Dave Carson
Date: 1/14/2006
Notes: Pier Head Station (officially known as South Station) destroyed by the October 2005 fire.
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Country: United Kingdom
City: Southend-on-Sea, Essex
System: Southend Pier Railway
Collection of: Dave Carson
Notes: A 1986 Severn-Lamb diesel train in original maroon livery along the pier.
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