Southend-on-Sea, a coastal city in Essex, is a 40-minute drive or 50-minute train journey from Romford. Its main landmark is the 1.3-mile long pier - the world's longest pleasure pier - which has been ...

Michael Portillo’s journey across Essex reaches Chelmsford. At a huge construction site on the outskirts of the city he discovers Beaulieu Park, the first railway station to be built on the Great ...

A train has been wrapped in bold artwork celebrating the ethnicity of its operator’s workforce and the communities it serves. Digital artist Baraka Carberry, who created the work for Avanti West Coast ...

The cause of Spain and Portugal’s widespread blackouts remained a mystery on Tuesday, with some isolated disruption remaining after power was largely restored. One of Europe’s most severe blackouts ...

The pier is so long that it has its own railway to take you from one end to the other. READ MORE: Abridge: The 'picturesque' Epping Forest village near Romford Lifestyle blogger Muddy Stilettos ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Visitors to Epping Forest are being encouraged to protect its celebrated bluebells. The City of London Corporation, which manages the forest ...

The current 346 square miles of Petrified Forest open a window on an environment more than 200 million years old, one radically different from today's grassland. Where you now see ravens soaring ...

Kinglake sent a timely reminder to its NFNL Division 3 rivals with a stunning upset of a Brent Macaffer-less Epping at Epping on Saturday. The Lakers produced arguably the biggest upset of the ...

Along the way it traversed three and a half miles of parkland valleys, earthen embankments and concrete viaducts from Forest Hills to Ozone Park. The line was abandoned in 1962. And so nature ...