Trains from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea start at €83.94 and take 7h 7m at their fastest.
Fares and seats move by the day. Price Lyon to Southend-on-Sea on the date you actually want, rather than on the date this page was built.
The Trains from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea starts at €83.94 and takes 7h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 818 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 6, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€107.59 to €247.29 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
Eurostar runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.
Trainline lists departures for Lyon to Southend-on-Sea on your date, and you pay on their side.
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What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
Changes at Paris, with 99 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 8h 2mCO2 25.1 kgChanges 1Refundable
Door to door 7h 7mCO2 27.0 kgChanges 0Refundable
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Eurostar | €86.69 | 6h 16m | 140 km/h | Refundable | Power outlets, Wi-Fi |
The train gets you into Southend-on-Sea. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
Sort by distance from Southend East and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea takes 7h 7m door to door, of which 6h 23m is spent moving. The route runs 818 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
The Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea starts at €83.94 for one passenger, as of September 18, 2026. A typical fare is €89.99. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea: Eurostar. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
The Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea leaves from Lyon Part Dieu and arrives at Southend East. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
Fares for the Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €71.84. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 244 percent, measured on September 18, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea produces about 27.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 818 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Operators on the Train from Lyon to Southend-on-Sea publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 1 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 7h 7m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for it.
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Southend-on-Sea is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips that leave Southend-on-Sea in the morning and cover a good part of United Kingdom by evening.
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