[2] The station accounted for the majority of the line's freight which comprised fruit and agricultural products, particularly blackberries picked in the area.
[4] Although ultimately never successful, the Gravesend branch began to suffer in the face of competition from local bus services following the Second World War, and freight dropped off.
Worse was to follow a few months later when the decision was made to close all stations on the line to passenger traffic as from 3 August 1953.
[6] A brief revival took place in 1974 when the APCM took a lease of the former goods yard at Southfleet, constructed a small prefabricated engine shed and laid out sidings.
From Fawkham Junction, the CTRL reuses the Gravesend West trackbed as far as the Dale Road overbridge near the site of Southfleet station, where it heads east on a new course.