Southend Pier is a record-breaker (From Southend Standard)
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Southend Pier is a record-breaker
3:11pm Friday 14th September 2012 in Echo News
SOUTHEND Pier’s railway has been recognised as an official record-breaker.
The mile-long track has won a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest pleasure pier railway.
The Grade II-listed structure on which it sits was already recognised as the world’s longest pleasure pier.
Derek Jarvis, the Tory councillor responsible for the pier, said: “We are thrilled by this achievement because we’re told only eight per cent of the records collected go on to be featured in the actual Guinness Book of Records.
“It is yet another way to help keep Southend and its well-loved heritage in the public eye.”
Comments(17)
Shrimpers Not Blues
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4:59pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Must have taken a genius to figure that one out!
DCLEIGH
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5:00pm Fri 14 Sep 12
AnotherSister
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5:29pm Fri 14 Sep 12
DCLEIGH wrote:Nice one! :-)
It also has the record for having the end the furthest away from a Tesco Express
southendshrimper
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6:56pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Tesco to open a new tesco express store at end of Southend pier. The store is expected to open by October 2012.
Echo reporter B'ollocks to open store.
Audioman
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8:16pm Fri 14 Sep 12
pleasure pier at all nothing pleasure
about it
bob64
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9:48pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Alec Cikes
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10:23pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Lets hope that we get some of that pride back to the Pier through some well thought out invention.
Alec Cikes
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10:25pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Let's do it proud!
SARFENDMAN
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10:57pm Fri 14 Sep 12
Max Impact
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11:07pm Fri 14 Sep 12
http://www.southendt
imeline.com/svbspeci
al.htm
Makes intresting reading, the vast vast VAST majority of people from across the world LOVE the pier.
Shame some of the people of Southend do not.
DogsMessInLeigh
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11:54pm Fri 14 Sep 12
but theres bugger all at the end to do though, how about crazy golf with a nautical theme.
SARFENDMAN
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6:38am Sat 15 Sep 12
Max Impact wrote:Max agree most people love the Pier BUT hate the way it's been treated as an after thought by successive administrations. The likes of Jamie Oliver are a way forward as can tap into a preent day demand, that's if he turns his film set into a real cafe. The pier needs to be fun and as said here it should have some element of good old fashioned"Pleasure" as you might remember it. Yes, it can have it's "Culture" bit but it should appeal to all families of all ages and all classes. A Bandstand, an ice cream stall, a burger bar, amusement arcade, a windbreak so you can sit in a deckchair without being blown into The Thames. Those who dont care much for the pier are ofter "young" in your eyes as all they have ever seen is a decaying, neglected structure that up til now, has offered nothing at all. See it from their point of view too.
Not everbody hates the pier like you lot... http://www.southendt imeline.com/svbspeci al.htm Makes intresting reading, the vast vast VAST majority of people from across the world LOVE the pier. Shame some of the people of Southend do not.
tatersalad
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7:13am Sat 15 Sep 12
tatersalad
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7:18am Sat 15 Sep 12
Alec Cikes wrote:Probably what makes Southend famous, it was the reason to visit this town.
The Southend Pier, after all, is a part of Southend's Heritage.
Let's do it proud!
jayman
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9:12pm Sat 15 Sep 12
a = (v2-u2)/2s
a = 2(s - ut)/t2
where
a=acceleration (m/s2)
v=final velocity (m/s)
u=initial velocity (m/s)
t=time (s)
s=distance (m).
OR
a=(v-vo)/t
a=acceleration (m/s2)
v=final velocity (m/s)
vo=initial velocity (m/s)
t=time (s).
using the above formula i have calculated the if we had a train on the pier the could reach a top speed of 725 mph prior to reaching the end where a ramp would be placed at a 1 in 5 incline, the inertia generated at launch point would be sufficient to send the train off to Kent.
and unless the council put anything entertaining on the pier sending paying passengers to a crushing end may be the only (if not ludicrous) use for the pier..
Basildon.lad.21
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4:06pm Sun 16 Sep 12
DCLEIGH says...
4:26pm Fri 14 Sep 12