Photograph showing the Westerham Signal box on the
Westerham Valley Steam railway.
Kent County Council was eyeing up the route of the Westerham
Valley branch line for redevelopment as part of a major
orbit road, to be called the M25. Against these odds, it was
inevitable that the branch line would close. This it did at
the end of October 1961. There were grand plans to save the
line and to reopen it as 'part-commuter, part-heritage' line
with diesel railcars for the business users an steam trains
for the enthusiasts, but the plans did not come to fruition
and the lifting of the track and the demolition of Westerham
station was more or less completed by spring 1967.
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Photograph taken by Derek Potton and suplied by the Transport Treasury
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