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 and watch the simulated trains move, 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.
Free Entry
Currently closed
until Easter
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 the 1950’s and earlier.
- Real old pennies provided for the machines
- Look through the restored mutoscopes.
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 levers in the signal box to control a simulated movement of trains.
