At Brasted, a house was built adjacent to the station for the Station Master, as the site was fairly remote, being a good half-mile away from the village in a somewhat wooded area. Built in 1883, the cost of the house at that time was £560.
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The tree line moving away from the main-line at Dunton Green is the overgrown track-bed of the Westerham branch-line photographed in September 2017. Fifty-five years without a weed-killing train produces a lot of growth.
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Obviously now with a much-elevated ground-level, what is now a tarmac footpath to the village school at Dunton Green was the track-bed of the branch-line going under the A224 London Road heading towards Dunton Green station junction.
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Trains leaving Dunton Green junction bound for Westerham would have chuffed under this roadbridge on the way to their first stop at Chevening Halt, slightly less than a mile away.
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Coming out of the subway and looking towards Dunton Green village across the fields reveals the original South Eastern and Chatham Railway cast-iron gateposts of 1881 still supporting the boundary fence wires demarcating the extent of railway land for the branch.
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Looking-up from the subway tunnel at the lower-level reveals the overgrown track-bed embankment curving away to the west of Dunton Green station over the top of the subway.
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This is the view of the entrance to the subway as seen by people walking across the field from Dunton Green village on their way to the station.
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This is the view out of the subway onto the field footpath that leads to Dunton Green village. Original South Eastern Railway railings and fence posts still exist identifying the boundary of what was ‘railway land’, not to be trespassed on.
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This subway at Dunton Green was built with the line in 1881 to allow passenger access from the village to Dunton Green station by walking under the branch-line. The branch has been closed for 57 years now, but the subway is still there and still in use. The row of trees beyond it in this ...
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Looking south-west across Dunton Green station carpark shows the overgrown track-bed of the branch-line curving away to the west in the direction of Chevening Halt, Brasted and Westerham.
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Here a shot of the overgrown trackbed not far from the site of Chevening Halt, taken in September 2017.
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A distant view of the trackbed between Dunton Green and Chevening is marked by the tree line of fifty-six years overgrowth on the unadopted land.
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Retained as a convenient place for the bus to stop off the road, this is the site of the station forecourt, as shown on the adjacent 1896 map. L.B. denotes a letterbox which is still there albeit of modern design.
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