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c2c (1996–2025)

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c2c
Overview
Franchise(s)London, Tilbury & Southend:
26 May 1996 – 8 November 2014
Essex Thameside:
9 November 2014 – 10 November 2029
Main route(s)Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness
Other route(s)to Grays via Rainham
to Pitsea via Ockendon
to Liverpool Street via Stratford
Fleet size74 Class 357 Electrostar sets
6 Class 387 Electrostar sets
Stations called at28
Stations operated25
Route km operated128.7
National Rail abbreviationCC
Parent companyTrenitalia
Websitewww.c2c-online.co.uk
Route map
Route map

Trenitalia c2c Limited,[1] trading as c2c,[2] was a British train operating company that operated commuter services from the London terminus at Fenchurch Street to parts of East London and south Essex along the London, Tilbury and Southend line. It was the operator of the Essex Thameside railway franchise, and later rail contract, from 26 May 1996 to 20 July 2025.

c2c route map
Shoeburyness
Thorpe Bay
Southend East
Southend Central
Westcliff
Chalkwell
Leigh-on-Sea
Benfleet
Pitsea
Stanford-le-Hope
East Tilbury
Tilbury Riverside(for ferry to Gravesend)
Tilbury Town
Basildon
Laindon
West Horndon
Grays
Chafford Hundred
Ockendon
Purfleet
Rainham
Dagenham Dock
Upminster
Barking
East Ham Depot
West Ham
Stratford
Limehouse
Fenchurch Street( Tower Hill)
Liverpool Street

The normal off-peak service are of eight trains per hour (tph) coming and leaving Fenchurch Street:

  • 4 tph to Shoeburyness going past Basildon
    • of which 2 trains do not stop at Limehouse, West Horndon and Pitsea
    • 2 trains stop at all stations
  • 2tph to Grays via Rainham
  • 2tph to Southend Central via Ockendon

Additional night services operate between Shoeburyness / Pitsea / Grays-Barking.

Additional morning peak services operate between Shoeburyness / Pitsea / Stanford-le-Hope - Grays.

  1. "Trenitalia c2c Limited". Companies House. HM Government. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  2. Companies House extract company no 2938993 c2c Rail Limited

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Preceded by
Network SouthEast
As part of British Rail
Operator of Essex Thameside franchise
1996–2029
Incumbent