Class 357 C2C units 2013-2023

Class 357 units over a 10 years period
David Bosher

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<h4><a href='/locations/O/Ockendon'>Ockendon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/U/Upminster_to_Grays_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Upminster to Grays Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357008, with a C2C service from Southend Central to Fenchurch Street, departing from Ockendon station in Essex on 17th April 2013. This station was opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway with the Upminster to Grays line on 1st January 1892 and was the only intermediate station on the line until the opening of Chafford Hundred station, between here and Grays, more than a hundred years later on 26th May 1995. 1/20</p><p>17/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Leigh-on-Sea'>Leigh-on-Sea</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357 034 with a C2C service from London Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Ockendon departing from Leigh-on-Sea station, on 11th March 2014. This station opened in 1934, replacing the original station of 1855 that was further east and more conveniently sited for what is known as 'the old village' of Leigh. 2/20</p><p>11/03/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thorpe_Bay'>Thorpe Bay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357 032 with a C2C service from London Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Basildon arriving at its penultimate stop at Thorpe Bay on 11th March 2014. The LTSR reached what is now Southend Central in 1856 but was not extended to Shoeburyness until 1884. However, it was not until 1st July 1910 that the station seen here was opened on the 1884 section and for its first few weeks it was known as Southchurch-on-Sea but was quickly renamed Thorpe Bay on 18th July of the same year. 3/20</p><p>11/03/2014<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upminster'>Upminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357216 to Fenchurch Street (left), and 357227 to Southend Central via Ockendon (right), at Upminster on 17th April 2013. This Essex station is also the eastern terminus of the District Line and of the short single-track branch from Romford that became a detached part of London Overground on 31st May 2015. 4/20</p><p>17/04/2013<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357210 with a C2C service approaching its destination at London Fenchurch Street, having travelled from the Essex coast some 35 miles away to the east, seen from the DLR's Shadwell station, on 30th November 2018. The former Shadwell & St. George's East station was just to the east of the DLR's island platform and closed as a war economy in 1941, never to reopen. There are scant platform remains but substantial remains of the entrance at street level below the former London & Blackwall Railway viaduct of 1840. 5/20</p><p>30/11/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/W/West_Ham_High_Level'>West Ham (High Level)</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/C/Campbell_Road_to_Barking_Quadrupling_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Campbell Road to Barking Quadrupling (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357040, with an evening peak hours C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Laindon, Essex, calling at West Ham on 15th September 2016. The train will head away from the camera when it departs. On the left is the island platform served by LUL District and Hammersmith & City Line trains. The low level platforms for DLR and LUL Jubilee Line trains are at right angles below. 6/20</p><p>21/12/2018<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Barking'>Barking</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357315, with a C2C service to Fenchurch Street, departing from Barking on 17th January 2019. 7/20</p><p>17/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upminster'>Upminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357011, with a C2C service to Shoeburyness via Basildon, departing from Upminster on 17th January 2019. This station is also the eastern terminus of the District Line whose platforms are on the left with, further left, a single side platform for the Romford branch which became an isolated section of the Overground network in May 2015. 8/20</p><p>17/01/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/T/Thorpe_Bay'>Thorpe Bay</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357039, with a C2C service to Shoeburyness, departing from its penultimate stop at Thorpe Bay on Easter Sunday, 21st April 2019. The train has come from Liverpool Street, the normal C2C terminus at Fenchurch Street being temporarily closed over the Easter holiday. That's a friend of mine on the left with the shoulder bag. 9/20</p><p>21/04/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/P/Pitsea'>Pitsea</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>Pitsea, Essex, looking east, seen from 357035 calling with a C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Ockendon, on 13th October 2019. The original station here opened in 1855 and was re-sited in 1888 when it became a junction with the completion of the LTSR cut-off line from Barking via Upminster which joined the original route here at Pitsea. There are four platforms, those on the later (direct) line are on the far left of the buildings. 10/20</p><p>13/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Benfleet'>Benfleet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357035, with a C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Ockendon, departing from Benfleet on 13th October 2019. Benfleet opened in 1855, with the extension of the LTSR from Tilbury to Leigh-on-Sea, and is the station for Canvey Island. 11/20</p><p>13/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/B/Benfleet'>Benfleet</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357009 and 357026, with a C2C service to Shoeburyness, arriving at Benfleet, Essex, the station for Canvey Island, on 13th October 2019. 12/20</p><p>13/10/2019<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend_Central'>Southend Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357023, with a C2C service to Fenchurch Street via Basildon, arriving at Southend Central, alongside 357319 to Shoeburyness, on 1st September 2020. 13/20</p><p>01/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend_Central'>Southend Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357319, with a C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Basildon, arriving at Southend Central on 1st September 2020. 14/20</p><p>01/09/2020<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upminster'>Upminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357020, with a C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Ockendon, heading away from the camera as it departs from Upminster on 24th June 2021. This station is also the far eastern terminus of the LUL District Line and the short single track branch to Romford that became an isolated part of the London Overground in May 2015. 15/20</p><p>24/06/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357035 with 357316, on a C2C service approaching Fenchurch Street, passing the DLR station at Shadwell, on 2nd July 2021. 16/20</p><p>02/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/U/Upminster'>Upminster</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>357005, with 357001, from Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness via Basildon, arriving at Upminster on 8th July 2021. A train of LUL S7 stock can be seen at the District Line terminus on the right. 17/20</p><p>08/07/2021<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/L/Laindon'>Laindon</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Barking,_Upminster_and_Pitsea_Line_London,_Tilbury_and_Southend_Railway'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></small></p><p>Class 357 units on a C2C Fenchurch Street service at Laindon, Essex, seen from a departing service to Shoeburyness, on Bank Holiday Monday, 2nd May 2022. The father of the late Carry On actress Joan Sims (1930-2001) was the stationmaster here in the 1930s and Joan lived with him and her mother in the station house when she was a child. 18/20</p><p>02/05/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Southend_Central'>Southend Central</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/E/Eastern_Counties_and_London_and_Blackwall_Railway'>Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357326, seen through zoom lens, with a C2C service from Shoeburyness to Liverpool Street (diverted from Fenchurch Street), calling at Southend Central on the afternoon of Bank Holiday Monday, 29th August 2022. 19/20</p><p>29/08/2022<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p> <h4><a href='/locations/S/Shadwell'>Shadwell</a></h4><p><small><a href='/companies/B/Blackwall_Railway'>Blackwall Railway</a></small></p><p>357029 with C2C train approaching Fenchurch Street past the DLR station at Shadwell, on a freezing 25th January 2023. Another outing when my friend and fellow Railscot contributor Bill Roberton from Scotland was with me. 20/20</p><p>25/01/2023<br><small><a href='/contributors/David_Bosher'>David Bosher</a></small></p>
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