[4] The station was built with two platforms either side of a double track, a signal box was located to the south with a goods yard to the south-east.

The track ran over the surface of the high chalk plateau parallel with the Dover-Deal main line, before climbing up to the summit just at the entrance to Guston tunnel.

It then descended in a zig-zag formation on a vertiginous shelf which was cut into the cliff, leading down to the eastern part of the harbour.

The route was reopened during both wars and operated mainly by Royal Engineers to deploy mounted artillery on the cliff edge.

[9] During the Second World War, the branch served the many gun batteries along the white cliffs between Dover and St Margarets including the two 14 inch guns/cannons nicknamed Winnie (after Winston Churchill) and Pooh (after the fictional bear).