North Road in Westcliff is closed between Chelmsford Avenue and Howards Chase for emergency power repairs, which the council expects to take two weeks from 10 November. From Monday 16 November, Bournes Green Chase also shuts one way on weekday daytimes for five weeks.

The Queensway night closures end after tonight, 14 November. On the railway, c2c’s Basildon line trains start and end at Barking today, Saturday 14 November, because of engineering work.

Updated 14 November: three new emergency closures in North Road, Fernleigh Drive and West Road with Church Road, Shoeburyness. The council has cleared its older emergency notices from its list, and the Riviera Drive gas order has ended. c2c’s calendar, read today, says London-bound trains will not call at Limehouse until Sunday 22 November. c2c’s timetable page still carries both its Barking banner and its revised timetable note.

Updated 12 November: National Rail now records the Barking derailment disruption as ended (“Incident cleared: Wednesday 11 November 2026 at 12:12”). c2c’s timetable page still carries a banner about disruption between Barking and Grays, so check a journey planner before you travel. The council’s closure lists, read today, carry no new orders since 9 November, and the Riviera Drive gas order ended on 9 November.

Updated 9 November: Remembrance Sunday has passed and its closures are moved to finished. The council’s three closure lists, read today, carry no new orders since 7 November. c2c’s calendar, read today, adds work on 28 and 29 November and from 30 November to 3 December. National Rail still says at least 10 November.

Updated 7 November: we have added the Bournes Green Chase cycle track closure from 16 November, a tree work order for seven streets from 13 November and a footway order starting on Chalkwell Park Drive on 13 November. c2c’s calendar, read today, has dropped this weekend’s closure and added work on 21 to 24 November. The 5 November Victoria Avenue closure and the Leigh gully cleaning bans have passed. National Rail still says at least 10 November.

Every item below is taken from the council’s own traffic orders, c2c’s own engineering calendar and timetable page, and TfL’s own pages. We last read the council’s three closure lists, c2c’s timetable page and engineering calendar on Saturday 14 November.

Queensway and Chichester Road: last night closure on 14 November

This Better Queensway order runs from 9pm to 5am on the nights of 9 to 14 November, weather permitting, so tonight is its last night. It bans two movements (council notice, dated 13 October):

  • driving from Chichester Road into the Queensway service road at Victoria Station
  • turning right from the Queensway (A13) into Chichester Road

The signed alternatives are:

  • via the Queensway (A13), the Queensway and London Road roundabout, and Victoria Avenue
  • via the Porters Grange roundabout, the Queensway and Chancellor Road roundabout, and Southchurch Road

Emergency vehicles, residents and pedestrians keep access throughout. The council has also posted the same notice on its list under the title “Queensway Bus station”; the text is identical, so it is not a separate closure.

The standing order behind the rest of the scheme still applies. Phased closures began at 5am on 24 March 2026 and can run up to 18 months, so into late 2027. It shuts all four Queensway slip roads at Porters Grange roundabout in phases, handles the Lancaster Gardens stretch under night closures, and suspends the eastbound parking bays from Sutton Road to Nicholson House (council traffic order). The underpass itself and the Porters Grange pedestrian subway stay shut for the duration (earlier order). The separate southeast slip road ban ended on 2 October (order). Sutton Road and Southchurch Road reopened on 13 August (Southend-on-Sea City Council); we covered that in Sutton Road and Southchurch Road reopen.

What it means for you: treat Queensway as unreliable at peak times for the rest of the year, and use the signed routes into Chichester Road late tonight.

Bournes Green Chase: one-way closure on weekdays, 16 November to 18 December

A new council notice closes Bournes Green Chase to traffic entering from Wakering Road, as far as the Maplin Way roundabout. It applies from 9.30am to 3.30pm, Monday to Friday, from 16 November to 18 December, weather permitting (council notice, ref JR100S4760-02). The council says it is “a directional closure only”, so traffic in the other direction keeps moving.

The work is the council’s own installation of a cycle track. The signed alternative route is:

  • Bournes Green Chase
  • Thorpe Hall Avenue
  • Acacia Drive
  • Station Road
  • Maplin Way North

Emergency vehicles, residents and pedestrians keep access. The notice is printed “Dated: 9th November 2026”, ahead of its publication, so go by the closure dates.

What it means for you: if you drive from Wakering Road towards Thorpe Bay or North Shoebury in the middle of a weekday, expect the diversion for five weeks. Rush hours are outside the closure times.

Tree work: seven streets from 13 November

A council order closes streets one day at a time for tree work, 8.30am to 4.30pm, weather permitting (council order, ref TTO26-27-53, dated 6 November). Pedestrians are diverted where the pavement is shut.

Date Street Signed diversion
Fri 13 Nov Pleasant Road, Marine Parade to Ash Walk Hartington Road, Marine Parade
Fri 20 Nov Priory Avenue, whole road Priory Crescent, Victoria Avenue, East Street
Tue 24 to Thu 26 Nov St Ann’s Road, whole road Milton Street, Guildford Road, Sutton Road
Tue 24 Nov Hartington Road and Hartington Place, whole roads Pleasant Road, Marine Parade
Wed 25 Nov Albany Avenue, whole road Salisbury Avenue, Cliff Avenue, North Road
Mon 30 Nov to Fri 4 Dec South Avenue, in three phases from Hamstel Road to The Grove North Avenue and the side roads

Pleasant Road’s one-way rule is suspended while Hartington Road and Hartington Place are shut, so the diversion can use it. Parking bays outside numbers 3 to 29 and 26 to 40 Hartington Road are suspended on the day.

Footway resurfacing in Westcliff and Leigh, from 13 November

A further footway order runs into spring 2027 (council order, ref TTO25-26-57, dated 6 November). Work runs 7.30am to 5.30pm, with parking and the pavement shut on the stretch being done:

Street Dates
Chalkwell Park Drive, whole length 13 November to 29 January
Ashburnham Road, whole length 4 January to 19 March
Rectory Grove (printed “Rectory Drive” in the table) 4 January to 21 May
Elmsleigh Drive, from London Road (A13) 4 January to 21 May

The order also allows the council to stop traffic through the signals at Canewdon Road and Hamlet Court Road when the work needs it. Its opening paragraph gives a 12 October start, which does not match the table, so we have used the table’s dates.

Emergency closures: North Road, Fernleigh Drive and Church Road

The council’s emergency list, read on 14 November, now carries six notices (emergency road closures). The older notices from September and October have come off it.

Road What is shut Started Council’s expected duration
North Road, Westcliff, power repairs Chelmsford Avenue to Howards Chase 10 November 2 weeks
Fernleigh Drive, Leigh, water repairs Ensign Close to outside number 79 10 November 1 week
West Road and Church Road, Shoeburyness, gas repairs No entry or exit at West Road’s junction with Church Road; Church Road shut from Richmond Avenue to Ness Road 12 November 1 week
Rockleigh Avenue, Leigh, water repairs London Road to Sunningdale Avenue 3 November 1 week
Archer Avenue, Southend, water main repairs Hamstel Road to Canterbury Avenue 3 November 1 week
Bridge Close, Shoeburyness, telecom pole repairs No entry or exit at Elm Road 3 November 3 days

Sources: the council’s notices for North Road, Fernleigh Drive, West Road and Church Road, Rockleigh Avenue, Archer Avenue and Bridge Close.

Each notice says a diversion is marked on site and residents’ access is kept where possible. North Road’s two weeks point to about Tuesday 24 November. Fernleigh Drive’s week pointed to about 17 November, and the West Road and Church Road week to about 19 November. Rockleigh Avenue, Archer Avenue and Bridge Close are past their expected durations but still listed.

An emergency notice lasts 21 days at most by law. The council rarely publishes a reopening notice, so the signs on site are the authority. Presence on the list is not proof a road is shut.

Booked further out: Leigh and Westcliff in late November

Four more notices are on the council’s list for late November. Each is printed with a “Dated” line in November, ahead of the date it was published, so go by the closure dates in the text:

  • Grand Parade, Leigh: parking, waiting, loading and unloading banned outside and opposite numbers 51 to 55, 08:00 on 16 November to 17:00 on 17 November, for BT works. The road stays open (council notice).
  • Woodcutters Avenue, Leigh: closed from Bellhouse Lane to Bohemia Chase, 08:00 on 20 November to 17:00 on 24 November, with parking banned outside and opposite numbers 35 to 39, while UKPN makes a new service connection. Diversion via Bellhouse Lane and Bohemia Chase (council notice). Its “Dated” line reads 6 November.
  • Thames Drive, Leigh: closed from Western Road to London Road (A13), 10:00 to 15:00 on 24 November, while Anglian Water replaces a frame and cover. Diversion via Western Road, Hadleigh Road and London Road (council notice).
  • Westborough Road, Westcliff: closed between Hildaville Drive and Westminster Drive, 08:00 to 17:00 on 25 November, with no entry to Fairmead Avenue from Westborough Road and Fairmead’s one-way working suspended between Fairfax Drive and Westborough Road. Anglian Water again; diversion via Westborough Road, Fleetwood Avenue, Fairfax Drive and Westminster Drive (council notice).

Westcliff: footpath closures run into January

The council’s footpath resurfacing order suspends parking between 8am and 5pm and closes pavements in Westcliff streets on different dates. Milton Road (to 25 October) and Norwich Avenue (to 30 October) are done; two remain (council traffic order):

Street Dates
Wentworth Road, in its entirety 24 August to 20 November
Lymington Avenue, in its entirety 21 September to 8 January

The railway: what is running, to 3 December

Barking derailment: cleared on 11 November. A freight train partially derailed between Woodgrange Park and Barking on Friday 23 October. National Rail’s notice now reads “Incident cleared: Wednesday 11 November 2026 at 12:12” and says the disruption “has now ended” (National Rail). c2c’s timetable page, read on 14 November, still shows a banner warning of “ongoing disruption affecting stations between Barking and Grays” (c2c timetable). The two sources disagree, so check your journey before you set off.

How to claim for delays during the disruption: our derailment story.

c2c’s planned engineering work. We read c2c’s engineering calendar on Monday 9 November, and again on Saturday 14 November for that day (c2c service alterations). For Southend travellers it lists:

When What c2c says
Sat 14 Nov Fenchurch Street to Barking closed. Basildon line trains start and end at Barking. Trains on the line via Rainham divert to Liverpool Street, calling at Stratford, and are extended to Southend Central (c2c’s calendar, read 14 November).
Sun 15 Nov Basildon line trains start and end at Upminster, not calling at Barking or beyond.
Mon 16 to Wed 18 Nov, evenings From about 8.45pm, trains divert to Liverpool Street. From about 10.45pm, Basildon line trains run via Grays and miss Upminster, West Horndon, Laindon and Basildon, with shuttles between Upminster and Pitsea.
Sat 21 and Sun 22 Nov Fenchurch Street to Barking closed. Basildon line trains divert to Liverpool Street, calling at Stratford but not Limehouse or West Ham.
Mon 23 and Tue 24 Nov, late nights from 22:45 Basildon line trains run via Grays and miss Upminster, West Horndon, Laindon and Basildon, with replacement buses between Upminster and Pitsea via Laindon.
Sat 28 and Sun 29 Nov Liverpool Street to Barking closed. Basildon line trains booked to Liverpool Street divert to Fenchurch Street, calling at West Ham but not Stratford.
Mon 30 Nov to Thu 3 Dec, late nights from 22:20 No trains between Grays and Pitsea via Tilbury. Those trains start and end at Grays, with replacement buses between Grays and Pitsea via Tilbury.

Until Sunday 22 November, London-bound trains do not call at Limehouse while platform 1 is worked on. Trains towards Southend still call there, c2c says.

c2c’s amended timetable, brought in on 25 August for the dried-out clay under the track, has still not been formally withdrawn. National Rail marked its incident “cleared” on 5 October (National Rail), but c2c’s timetable page, read again on Saturday 14 November, still says “temporary speed restrictions have been introduced and a revised timetable will be in operation” (c2c timetable). Our Southend train times guide has the rest.

Finished in the past fortnight

  • Riviera Drive, Thorpe Bay: Cadent’s gas order, with its rolling junction closures on Ilfracombe, Lovelace and Surbiton Avenues, ran to 17:00 on Monday 9 November (order). It is still on the council’s list, and no extension has been published.
  • Late-night c2c closures between Pitsea and Shoeburyness, 9 to 12 November.
  • Tree work in Pleasant Road, Friday 13 November. The same order covers six more streets to 4 December (see above).
  • Older emergency notices for Ramuz Drive, Rayleigh Avenue, Milton Street, Tunbridge Road and the September and October notices have come off the council’s list.
  • Remembrance Sunday closures in Southend, Shoeburyness and Leigh-on-Sea, Sunday 8 November (order).
  • The 7 and 8 November Fenchurch Street to Barking closure was dropped from c2c’s calendar before the weekend.
  • Victoria Avenue northbound closure from Harcourt Avenue, 7pm to 11pm on Thursday 5 November (notice).
  • Gully cleaning parking bans on 19 Leigh streets, the last on Grand Parade on Thursday 5 November (notice).
  • Late-night c2c closures between Laindon and Leigh-on-Sea, to Thursday 5 November.
  • The Halloween Parade closures on the seafront, Saturday 31 October.
  • Tree work, the last date on the order: Moseley Street on Wednesday 4 November, weather permitting (order).
  • Queensway and Chichester Road night closures, 20 to 22 October. The same order returns for the nights of 9 to 14 November.
  • Tree work closures booked for Lansdowne Avenue (20 October), Palmerston Road (21 October), Harridge Road (27 October) and Gainsborough Drive (30 October).
  • Victoria Avenue and Carnarvon Road turns ban, the night of 29 October (notice).

  • Footpath resurfacing in Milton Road (to 25 October) and Norwich Avenue (to 30 October), Westcliff.

  • Bellhouse Road: the northbound entry ban from the A127 was ordered until 17:00 on Friday 16 October, for Essex and Suffolk Water (order). It is still on the council’s list, and no extension has been published.

  • Leigh Hill, Crowstone Avenue, the Queensway southeast slip road and the Woodgrange Close footpath orders all ran to 2 October. All four have now come off the council’s planned list.
  • The Southend 10K closures of the eastern seafront ran from 6am to 1.30pm on Sunday 4 October (council event order).
  • Riviera Drive’s railway closure ran 15 to 22 September. The same order keeps parking bays in Ilfracombe car park out of use until 31 January 2027, so the parking, not the road, is the lasting bit (order).
  • The Ridgeway, Chalkwell went back to two-way running after 23 September. The parent order, TTO26-27-33, stays in force until 31 January 2027, so further dates can be called under it without a new order (parent order).

The council’s special event closures page now carries only the Remembrance Sunday order, which has passed.

Two orders that have vanished without a reopening notice

  • Cliffs Pavilion service road and San Remo Parade. The order closing them since 18 March for the venue’s refurbishment gave 31 August as the expected completion date and allowed up to 18 months (order). It has now come off the council’s list, with no reopening notice.
  • Rayleigh Road, Brooklands Avenue and Snakes Lane. Cadent’s gas order ran to 14 September and left the list in early September.

In both cases we can confirm only that the order is no longer published. Check the signs, or the council’s live map (who is working in your street).

Gallows Corner

The junction at Romford where the A127 meets the A12 is about twenty miles west of Southend. When we read TfL’s travel advice page on 17 October it said “The Gallows Corner Flyover has fully reopened to all traffic”. That page has since been taken down: on 23 October its address returned “not found”, so we could not re-check it today. Background: Gallows Corner set to reopen fully.

Note who runs what, because it decides where to look. The A127 is not a National Highways road. Inside the city boundary it belongs to the council, and beyond it to Essex Highways. The National Highways closure report covers the A13 trunk sections and the M25, but not the Arterial Road.

Buses and the car-free options

The city’s buses are split between four operators. Arriva runs the core town network, including routes 1, 2 and 2A to Shoeburyness, 7, 8 and 9. First Essex runs the 20, 27 and 28 towards Hullbridge, Canvey and Basildon. Ensignbus runs the X1 and X2 expresses towards Lakeside and Upminster. Stephensons of Essex runs the council-supported 17 and 17A, whose funding the council extended for another twelve months in August 2026 (TravelEssex, council).

One myth to retire: Southend has no park and ride. Providing one is a question in the council’s Local Plan consultation material, not a service that exists (Local Plan representation). If you are driving in for the seafront, the realistic saving is picking the right zone, which our parking in Southend guide sets out car park by car park.

New from Sunday 25 October: Arriva’s 62A and 62B between Southend Travel Centre and the airport, free to ride until 31 October (Southend-on-Sea City Council). Our 62A and 62B story has the route.

What it means for you

  • North Road, Westcliff, about two weeks from 10 November: closed between Chelmsford Avenue and Howards Chase. Follow the signed diversion.
  • Church Road, Shoeburyness, about a week from 12 November: closed from Richmond Avenue to Ness Road, with no entry to or exit from West Road at Church Road.
  • Tonight, 14 November, 9pm to 5am: the last night of the Queensway and Chichester Road turn bans.
  • Today, 14 November: Basildon line trains start and end at Barking. Sunday 15 November: they start and end at Upminster.
  • Weekdays from 16 November to 18 December, 9.30am to 3.30pm: no entry to Bournes Green Chase from Wakering Road.
  • 21, 22, 28 and 29 November: more weekend engineering work between London and Barking. Check before you travel.

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