page_title: Southend Airport railway station
section_title: Services
hierarchical_section_title: Southend Airport railway station / Services
caption_attribution_description: English: Diagrammatic map of the principal National Rail and London Underground lines which serve the airports around London.
context_page_description: Southend Airport railway station is on the Shenfield to Southend Line in the East of England, serving London Southend Airport, the village of Sutton and northern parts of Southend-on-Sea. It is 39 miles 44 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Rochford and Prittlewell. Train services provide an airport rail link between Southend Airport and Central London.
  The station is managed by Stobart Rail but the trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia. The Engineer's Line Reference for the line is SSV; the station's three-letter station code is SIA. The platforms have an operational length for 12-coach trains.
context_section_description: The typical Monday-Saturday off-peak service is:
  2 trains per hour (tph) to London Liverpool Street, calling at all stations to Shenfield then Stratford and Liverpool Street.
  1 tph to London Liverpool Street, calling at all stations to Shenfield then Romford, Stratford and Liverpool Street.
  3 tph to Southend Victoria, calling at Prittlewell and Southend Victoria.
  When the Crossrail project is completed, interchange will be possible at Shenfield, Stratford and Liverpool Street between Southend Airport rail services and the new Elizabeth Line, providing onward links to central London and Heathrow Airport. Glyn Jones, chief executive of Stobart Aviation, proposed in 2018 that Crossrail should be extended to Southend Airport to alleviate capacity problems at Heathrow.
caption: Map of London airport Tube and rail connections
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