Sir Benjamin Nunn wrote:
"Ian Jelf" wrote in message
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Looking at North Weald on http://www.abandonedstations.org.uk/ I didnt
realise how rural the station was, I always thought Chesham and Amersham
were the most rural but seeing the pictures it was clearly not the case.

You can also see on that site that the next station on that line, Blake
Hall, was the least used station ever served by London Underground - Six
passengers a day. But that station was closed in 1981.

Was it staffed?


It had a team of seven staff IIRC.


I never saw more than one member of staff at a time - but sometimes he
was asleep by the coal fire in the booking office. I used to go there
from Ongar on Saturdays for piano lessons (wearing my anorak, of
course, and carrying an ENORMOUS thermos flask) - I was probably the
only passenger all day. Being a young 'trainspotter' I was delighted
to discover the occupier of the station house had laid a short
miniature railway in the garden, over the wall from the platform. He
was building a steam loco in his 'shed' under the arch of the road
bridge, I don't know if he ever finished it.