[5] The previous year, the company responsible for developing the venue had proposed a dedicated station on the Shepperton branch line.

The LSWR initially refused the request, possibly because they were in the process of doubling the line from Sunbury eastwards and were concerned that there would be insufficient capacity to accommodate raceday trains.

[7] Over 75,000 racegoers used Kempton Park station in 1937,[9] but after the end of the Second World War, raceday passenger numbers began to decline and the special trains ceased in the early 1960s.

[9] In 1914, the Metropolitan Water Board constructed a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway alongside part of the Shepperton branch.

[10] During the First World War, Kempton Park Racecourse was used as a motor transport store for the nearby camp at Sunbury.

[11] The prisoners were transported to the racecourse in corridor stock, hauled by Southern Railway 4-6-0 or War Department Austerity 2-8-0 locomotives.