Everard Calthrop was appointed Consulting Engineer in 1900, responsible for surveying the route and preparing the construction plans.
The Board of Trade report at opening gave the total length of the line as 12 miles 67 chains (20.7 km).
[4] Later Engineer's Line References (ELRs) show a shorter length of 12 miles 5 chains (19.4 km).
Three "flameproof" diesel locomotives of 165 bhp were supplied to RNAD Ditton Priors by Ruston and Hornsby between 1952 and 1955.
A similar machine Francis Baily of Thatcham (ex-RAF Welford) is preserved at Southall Railway Centre.
The following year the depot was taken over by US forces that had left France following the French withdrawal from NATO's military structure.