In 1967, Quentin Crisp starred in the sixteen-minute film The Even Tenour of her Ways, which was shot at this railway station.

The standard gauge part had a junction with the main line to the west of Betchworth station It ran via a reversing siding to the Eastern and Southern Kiln Batteries.

A 3 ft 2+1⁄4 in (972 mm) gauge railway system began there and primarily served the quarry with lines diverging to the Main, Upper Western Whitestone and Eastern Greystone Pits.

Townsend Hook, is at Amberley Chalk Pits Museum, having undergone a cosmtic restoration as a static exhibit.

[9] William Finlay, the sister engine of Townsend Hook, is preserved at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum.