c2c has announced that the Mayor and Mayoress of Southend paid a visit to Shoeburyness on the 1st February to help the station celebrate its 135th birthday.
Staff decorated the ticket hall with happy birthday banners, and the train operator gave out chocolates to its passengers.
c2c also launched an exciting competition for local children to design the ‘Shoeburyness Station of the future'.
The station was opened on 1 February 1884 by the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and was built primarily to serve the military establishment whose presence at Shoebury started in 1849.
The current station is pretty much as it was built with three platforms and wooden building, which is the original.
The locomotive and carriage facilities originally built at Southend were moved to Shoeburyness at this time with carriage sidings to the south and a two road locomotive shed immediately to the north of the station.
There were originally no intermediate stations on the line. Thorpe Bay wasn't opened until 1910 (as Southchurch-on-Sea) and Southend East in 1932.
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Happy Birthday Shoeburyness station. I think its still got the remains of Network Southeast. Or unless c2c got rid of it and refurbished the station. Except Leigh-on-Sea station still has got remains of Network Southeast including the sign outside the station.