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Southend Pier

United Kingdom / England / Southend-on-Sea /
 pier, Grade II Listed (UK)

Extending 1.34 miles (2.16 km) into the Thames Estuary it is the longest pleasure pier in the world.

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Coordinates:   51°31'25"N   0°43'10"E

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  • Carroll Shelby (guest)
    'Sir William Heygate', one of the recently painted trains approaches the shore terminus, 23rd October 2006The original wooden pier built in 1830 employed a horse tramway to convey goods and visitors to the pier head[3]. In 1890, with the construction of the iron pier, Cromptons installed an electric tramway with a single toast rack carriage and 3⁄4 miles of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge single track. By 1891 the line ran the full 1 1⁄4 miles and carriages were in use. The system expanded, until eventually, by 1930, four trains, each made up of seven carriages, were running on a double track. In 1949 the rolling stock was replaced with four new trains similar in design to the London Underground stock, built by AC Cars, of Thames Ditton, in Surrey. The stock was liveried in green and cream. In 1978 the electric railway closed, due to deterioration and the cost of repairs. It reopened in 1986 after rebuilding to 3 ft (914 mm) gauge. Two new trains were used on a simplified single track with a passing loop. Each train consists of a diesel-hydraulic locomotive at the southern end, five trailer coaches and at the northern end, a driver control unit with passenger space. Originally liveried in all-over burgundy with a white waist-band, the two trains were repainted in 2006, retaining the white waist band, but now in two-tone blue.
  • Terry McCann (guest)
    Southend Pier featured in the end credits of the British television series Minder. The sequence showed unscrupulous businessman Arthur Daley and his bodyguard (or "minder") walking down the pier. When they reach the end Arthur realises he has left his lighter at the far end and they proceed to walk the return journey. The comic implication is that he is too mean to pay for the train ride. New series coming in 2009. The pier is mentioned in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy; after Ford
  • Denegnet
    In breakfast on pluto was shooting too
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