Saturday - Trains

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

This should no doubt be on the Away Travel Section, but anyway....

Saturday, Southend - not been by train before - understand that Prittlewell, rather than Southend Central is the nearest?

From London Bridge is it quicker to:

Go by Tube to Stratford, and take the train from there.

OR

Tube from LB to Liverpool Street, and Train from there.

Many thanks.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

Prittlewell is the station you need and I'd recommend the first route option, via Stratford.

 

[Hiney]

Engineering works on the Jubilee from North Greenwich to Stratford I think - go to Liverpool St

 

[Foolg]

Will just walk from whatever pub we end up in by Southend Victoria, as is only a 15/20 minute walk topps, but prittlewell is closer.
If your booking trains, for some reason the cheapes way for me was to book brighton to east croydon, then east croydon to Southend, if anyone was interested

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Engineering works on the Jubilee from North Greenwich to Stratford I think - go to Liverpool St

Cheers for the heads up on that, just checked out website re Eng. works - will go via L'pool St.

Thanks all.

 

[dannyboy]

or you could change at bank and get the central line to strastford

 

[bhaexpress]

You could save money by going to East Croydon, tram from there to Elmer's End, train from Elmers End to Lewisham, DLR to Stratford and then take the train from there.

If you have nothing better to do and are a really tight git that is.

 

[CHAPPERS]

You could save money by going to East Croydon, tram from there to Elmer's End, train from Elmers End to Lewisham, DLR to Stratford and then take the train from there.

If you have nothing better to do and are a really tight git that is.

Nice one, I'm doing that.

 

[The Wizard]

You could save money by going to East Croydon, tram from there to Elmer's End, train from Elmers End to Lewisham, DLR to Stratford and then take the train from there.

If you have nothing better to do and are a really tight git that is.

f*** that, all those stops AND you have to go via croydon.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

You could save money by going to East Croydon, tram from there to Elmer's End, train from Elmers End to Lewisham, DLR to Stratford and then take the train from there.

If you have nothing better to do and are a really tight git that is.

But I want to get to Southend on the same day I leave Sussex

 

[bhaexpress]

But I want to get to Southend on the same day I leave Sussex

Strangely enough according to the Transport for London Web site it's about the same time. Factor in that you have to use two tubes whether you got from Victoria or London Bridge (The former you could do in one by trudging round the Circle line) and there's a fair bit of walking at Liverpool Street it's not too surprising. You save money as you don't actually go into Central London. If you have an Oyster Card you save quite a lot.

Oh, there's a dirty great Tescos at Elmers End if you need to get a food or drink either coming or going.