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There's a level crossing over the road near the station, which leads to rail tracks in the old MOD areas. A few years ago South West trains took all their old slam door rolling stock there for storage before going to scrap in Wales. I went down to take some pictures of the old trains through the fence of the MOD site and in a few minutes got told off by a security guard.
In the 1950's my parents used to take me to Shoeburyness on the steam train from Fenchurch Street, fun in those days.

Looks like we were travelling the same railway yesterday. C2C seems very fast.

Reminds me of the old Ian Dury song Billericay Dickie.

There's a good view of the 'Richard Montgomery' shipwreck when the tide is low!

Great write-up. Shoebury is so (ALMOST wonderfully) bleak at this time of year.. (Vange Marshes maybe gets the balance between misery and beauty right a bit better in this end of Essex)

I'm just surprised that you didn't find the bit that is where tube trains go to die (or to await resussitation in the event that something happens to all the ones actually in London)...although granted it's hard to find a way out of Shoebury to the north that you are actually permitted to take.

And even the pub on Foulness has closed now.

My Grandad always took my sister and I to Shoebury Ness as a treat when we were young. Over 30 years ago now but this post brought it all back.

...particular thanks for the BB reference...as soon as I saw "Shoeburyness" that's what I thought of.

But good to learn there's more to it than "just" this.

I've been to Southend as a child loads of times, but never to Shoeburyness, so its always been a bit of a mystery, although you describe it pretty much as I imagine it. In recent years I only make it as far as Westcliff, for fish and chips at Oldhams. Easily the best in London & the SE.

As a retired local (well about 10 miles away)Shoebury makes a decent day out midweek when the weather's nice. Sitting on the beach with some food bought from the nearby Waitrose is something we often do and reflect on our former colleagues slaving away earning the money to pay our pensions. Luxury!!!!

I have seen the trains at Pigs Bay, definately spooky. I know a lot of them are scrap but they do seem to have a lot in good condition, especially in the MOD compound

Where does a river officially end? Presumably, with the nature of tides, this varies on an hourly basis. Or is there some official definition of the point?

That's a great bit of writing. I was bought up in Shoeburyness in the 1950's. It bought it all back... The blog made all the scuffiness of the area seem quite quaint!

This seems a poor area with residential and other buildings too small.











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