Westerham Station looking west towards the loading dock at the end of the line

Bill Curtis:  “…I travelled with my father on the Westerham branch in the summer of 1959 and as we were the only passengers boarding the empty train at Dunton Green, we were invited by the driver to accompany him and his fireman in the cab for the journey – what a treat! Suffice it to say that no-one else joined the train at Chevening Halt or Brasted, and on our return journey that evening, there was only one other passenger for the train out of Westerham. This story steps outside the time-line of this book, but I felt that was worth recounting as this had surely become an unremunerative service in a little over 75 years…”