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Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Thu 26-04-12 9:30; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry about multiple posts above. I was having a keyboard crisis!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Mr Marmot, I doubted you there for a moment but it does look like that could actually happen without delays. The last flight arriving in S'end tonight is at 23:05 which is coincidentally the same time as the last train to L'pool St. Now that is a bit cr*p! Trains don't start again until 04:05, that's a long time in a small airport. Here's hoping that they sort that out pretty soon. Oh well, it is only 40 odd miles to central London. Only a little further out than Stanstead.
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Mr Marmot, you can delete your own posts, if you're feeling charitable.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| little ms spock wrote: |
| Mr Marmot, you can delete your own posts, if you're feeling charitable. |
But I can't mini spock! I can no longer find the tool in my posts to enable deletion! I'm a confused marmot!
Edit: Strangely, when I subsequently reviewed this specific post the 'delete' icon has appeared against it. However, there are no 'delete' icons next to my multiple posts above. Maybe I didn't actually write them 
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Thu 26-04-12 9:26; edited 1 time in total
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Mr Marmot, you can't delete a post after someone has posted after your post. You can edit and replace all the text with e.g. "duplicate post"
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| Mr Marmot, you can't delete a post after someone has posted after your post. You can edit and replace all the text with e.g. "duplicate post" |
That explains it. Never noticed this before. Thanks. I'll now edit text with the words 'duplicate post'.
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My 'sources' tell me that recently some passengers on a late evening airport arrival were non-too-pleased to find that the trains had stopped running from the 'conveniently located railway station immediately outside the terminal providing fast and frequent trains to Central London' and they had to take a taxi instead! I bet they soon found out just how far Southend is from London!
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I thought that the Victoria line runs pretty much through the night? At least it often gets me home at ungodly hours after a night out in London.
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emwmarine, er... the Victoria Line doesn't go to Southend Airport, it's a National Rail station. They obviously had you fooled into thinking it's in London 
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holidayloverxx, FYI - the boring answer...
There are two train stations in central Southend, Southend Central (the line follows the coast and then goes to Fenchurch Street) and Southend Victoria (the line goes inland and then on to Liverpool Street). They're a short walk from each other at that point. The Victoria is the one that services the airport. Both lines seem to close down London bound services around 11pm and reopen at 4am. This leaves late arriving air travellers in a bit of a pickle.
N.B. Trains out of London to the sticks finish at about 1am.
and no, no tube lines go that far out...
On the other hand even if you arrive at Heathrow you're not much better off as the tube shuts down in the dead of night. You would have the option of night buses or a shorter cab journey though.
I'm taking this all FAR too seriously aren't I?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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little ms spock,
your points are very valid but I don't think the current/planned passenger volume justifies the extra expense just yet..
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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little ms spock, Ah, of course. I forgot the Southend line is the Southend Victoria line (which I should know as I go through Shenfield a few times a week!)
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| emwmarine, er... the Victoria Line doesn't go to Southend Airport, it's a National Rail station. They obviously had you fooled into thinking it's in London |
Sorry - to many that live there the line is called the 'victoria line' or the 'liverpool street' line.
The other line is called the Fenchurch street line or the Shoeburyness line.
The two lines offer two slightly different routes into London, late at night drunk commuters often get gently shooed from fen church street to liverpool street.
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You know it makes sense.
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oops just seen the other replies.
Still I can't wait to fly to the Val Thoren's Geneva airport from London's Southend Airport. Now, if they only fly to Val Thorens, Chambery as well. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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oops just seen the other replies.
Still I can't wait to fly to the Val Thoren's Geneva airport from London's Southend Airport. Now, if they only fly to Val Thorens, Chambery as well.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Still new here. Why do I sometimes get duplicate posts for no reason? Is it something I am doing wrong?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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emwmarine, it usually happens if you hit submit more than once, say if it's a bit slow in responding
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| limegreen1 wrote: |
| why do they advertise it as London southend airport .... WHEN ITS NOT IN lONDON !! Maybe "quite close to London but nearer to Southend Southend airport". |
You could ask the same about Luton, Gatwick and Stanstead, non of which are within London itself. |
I have, and was politely passed over to the London central enquiries centre based in London Dehli ...
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I've a flight next year booked from Southend. Never flown from there before. Any recommended/not recommended long term car park?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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it's very small so the long and short stay carparks are only a few metres away from each other. The cheap alternative is just leave it in the macdonalds next door. They wont mind.
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There's various park-on-my-drive locations nearby for about £25/week, or the train station is even nearer to the terminal than the carpark if you can use the train.
There was a problem locally with a large unlicensed carpark that got shut down which made me nervous of some of the unofficial alternatives (I nearly booked it just before it was closed!). The official long stay is maybe 300m walk from the terminal.
The retail centre car park next door claims to have time limits etc. It would stress me out to go on holiday not knowing if my car would be towed or heavily fined when I got back.
Fantastic airport. I can arrive at 6.30am for a 7am to Amsterdam, and still have time to grab a bite at the terminal!
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