Originally Posted by
LTNman
I will put that down to location, location, location. Hemmed in by water on 2 sides, its distancing from London and no motorway network at its front door was always going to be a challenge despite its railway station.
Even with it's own rail station, the journey time is 50-ish minutes long as it stops at all stations en-route from/to London.
If there were a twice-hourly 'Southend Express' type rail service, which operated from London-Liverpool St that only stops at
Stratford, Shenfield & the airport en-route to Southend Victoria
, then surely this would help to cut that journey time down.
Of course, the problem is that they need passenger numbers to improve before being able to justify implementing such a service.