[4] However, Flight reported as early as March 1937 that Imperial Airways were not looking to move from Croydon, despite its problems with fog.

[5] The land on which the airfield was to have been built was owned by the Kemp Town Brewing Company, of Brighton, East Sussex.

It was planned to build a short double track branch line from Lullingstone station to the airfield.

[1] At the 1938 Annual General Meeting, the Southern Railway stated that, in their opinion, the cost of levelling the ground and providing the necessary infrastructure associated with an airport, was something that was beyond a private company.

[13] The station appeared on railway timetables from May 1939 to June 1954, and was shown as open on the 1940 Ordnance Survey map.

Post-war Green Belt legislation prevented the scheme from being carried out,[14] with developers preferring Heathrow as the site of a new London airport,[15] due to it already being partly built and thus a cheaper option.