Things To Do

Southend Pier Museum is not just full of things to look at.

Get involved by playing the slot machines, operate the signal box, or imagine you can drive a train to the end of the Pier and back.

Of course you could just sit back and watch one of the continuously playing historical films.

Don’t miss the

new

Driver Experience

Toast Rack Pier Railway

The Trains

  • Admire the three, restored pier railway carriages.
  • Climb aboard Car 22 from the  1949 train and watch the video
  • Get into the drivers cab on the 1986 train and take the new Drivers Experience

Slots and Viewers

  • Play on the penny slot machines from th 1950’s and earlier.
  • Real Old pennies provided for the machines
  • Look through the restored mutoscopes.
Signals in Pier Railway Signal Box

The Signal Box

  • See one of the original signal boxes used to control the trains in the days when four trains operated on the Pier.
  • Operate the working levers that can be operated to  change the dummy tracks

Southend Pier Museum

Western Esplanade

Southend on Sea

SS1 1EE

Contact Details

email: Pier Museum Chairman

or

Opening Hours only

Telephone 01702 611214

Southend Pier Museum Foundation Ltd

Charity Number 802105

Arts Council England No. 490