 At the London end of the station there once was a goods yard and turntable for steam locomotives, closed in 1954; a couple of sidings remain here for storing engineering vehicles or failed trains, but much of the railway land here is now in use as a car park for passengers.The line from Wickford to Southend Victoria was converted from semaphore signalling to 3-aspect, automatic and semi-automatic, colour light signals on 26 June 1938.At the same time the signal boxes at Fanton, Rayleigh, Hockley and Rochford were decommissioned.