 The station was built by the Westerham Valley Railway (WVR) opened on 3 July 1881.The WVR was taken over by the South Eastern Railway in August 1881 which became the South Eastern and Chatham Railway in 1899.Operations passed to the Southern Railway upon the railway grouping in 1923 and thereafter on nationalisation of the railways to the Southern Region of British Railways which closed the Westerham Branch on 30 October 1961 due to low patronage.