Guilford station was 6.3 kilometres (3.9 mi) southeast of Penny on the northeast side of the Fraser River in central British Columbia.

The chosen name, a surname of pre 7th century origins, derives either from the city of Guildford, or from residence at a ford where golden flowers grew.

[4] It was selected from the list prepared by Josiah Wedgwood (submitted at the request of William P. Hinton, the railway's general manager).

[9] In September 1913, the Sykes family, later at Penny, travelled by construction train to the planned Guilford station on track laid early that month.

[10] The family settled due south, across the river, and Ada Sykes' diary provides one of the earliest surviving references to Guilford's existence.

[8] In 1960, a speeder collided with a work train in the vicinity, killing Shirley Howard Scott (1905–60),[13] one of the two CNR riders.

[16] Built in 1914, the standard-design Plan 100‐152 (Bohi's Type E)[17][18] station building was replaced with a converted freight shed in 1950.

[65] Months later, in the vicinity of Guilford, a falling tree fractured the skull of logger John Johnson (c.1889–1927),[66] who succumbed to his injuries while aboard a freight train en route to hospital.

[67] A year later, Asbjorn Fremstad (Framstad alternate spelling) (c.1908–1928)[68] suffered similar fatal injuries when decking logs at the Melrose Camp near Guilford.

[82] The following spring, Abernethy was fined for a violation of the Wage Act,[83] and mill worker John Babich lost two fingers when his mitt caught in the rollers.

[93] Clarence Riggs (1933–45) of Penny,[94] employed as a flunky in the mill cookhouse, slipped while walking on the log boom.

[115] Commuters often rode bicycles adapted for railway line travel,[116] which were prone to jump the track on bends.

[91] Authorized employees regularly used the sawmill's motorized speeder for shopping, collecting the mail or social visits to Penny.

Frances Wilson, Penny school teacher 1943–45,[117] ruptured her appendix on leaping from the speeder during one close encounter.

[130][131] Borrowed without permission, and hurriedly abandoned on the main line near Penny, the speeder was ejected from the rails on colliding with a train.

He burned the dilapidated buildings, and constructed a sawmill, garage, cookhouse, bunkhouse, and finally the family houses.

[146] Having electricity and running cold water in the two-bedroomed family houses was an uncommon luxury compared with many East Line communities.

[148] An ice skating rink in winter, and a large above ground pool, bikes and swings in summer, provided entertainment for the children,[149] while correspondence courses satisfied their schooling requirements.

[151] After the weekend, several employees returned to work from Prince George, or intermediate stops, aboard the early morning way freight, [152] and groceries ordered from the city arrived by the same means.