 The town has an infant and a primary school, a small library, a handful of pubs, a swimming pool, a brewery and cidery and one holiday park.Southminster railway station, the terminus of a single-line branch that was electrified in the 1980s, provides services to Wickford and Liverpool Street station in the City of London.Southminster is the name given to the fictional cathedral city featured in the short story 'An Episode of Cathedral History' by M.R.