About

Southminster railway station is the eastern terminus of the Crouch Valley Line from Wickford.

The station serves the town of Southminster and surrounding villages on the Dengie Peninsula. It is 45 miles (73.27 km) from London Liverpool Street and is currently operated by Greater Anglia.

The Crouch Valley Line and station were opened on 1 June 1889 for freight traffic and on 1 October 1889 for passenger traffic by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The station has a single platform and station buildings, and historically there were extensive sidings including a line to gravel pits (which close on 3 November 1979), and included a goods shed, cattle pens and a turntable.

The goods yard closed on 4 October 1965, followed by the signal box on 19 January 1986. In 1923, the line and station passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) following the 1923 Grouping of railway operators across the UK. It then passed to the Eastern Region of British Railways (BR) upon nationalisation in 1948.

The Wickford to Southminster line was electrified on 12 May 1986 and shortly after was operated by Network Southeast until British Rail was fully privatised.

The typical off-peak service is of one train every 40 minutes to Wickford, with additional services at peak times. Some peak services continue to or from Shenfield and/or London Liverpool Street via the Great Eastern Main Line. On Sundays, the service is reduced is to hourly.

Seating, pay phone, customer information system and 24 hour help point are available at this station.