Leigh-on-Sea
The outer up and inner bay island platform at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, seen from a C2C train to Shoeburyness arriving on the morning of Bank Holiday Monday, 2nd May 2022. This station was opened by the LMS (which had inherited the LT&SR, well outside its geographical territory, at the 1923 Grouping) in 1934, replacing the original 1855 station which was much more conveniently sited at the end of Leigh High Street. This still stands and is now the Headquarters of the Leigh Sailing Club, as it has been for several decades (see image 68276). Leigh is not 'on Sea' at all, as neither is Southend, both being on that part of the Thames Estuary where it widens out to meet the North Sea at Shoeburyness but the suffix was bestowed on them by the LTSR Directors in the hope of encouraging leisure traffic though these days the line is mostly an outer commuter route to and from London Fenchurch Street.
Location: Leigh-on-Sea
Original line: Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway
Photographer: David Bosher
Contact photographer: David Bosher
Photosets: English stations, National and Heritage Lines (excluding London) 1979-2023 Station nameboards, National and Heritage lines 1974-2023
Date: 02/05/2022
Image number: 81555
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