GS: The Guy Special
	Prepared by Ian Smith

413B DG Sevenoaks Stn - Chipstead

When the Westerham Branch railway closed in January 1961, disconnecting Westerham, Brasted, and Chevening stations from Dunton Green it left the area served by Chevening Halt without a good bus connection. The 413 - a rambling rural RF route - passed the station on its way to Chevening Church, but that service was geared to serve various populations of the Sevenoaks Weald, not the commuters of Chipstead, and anyway missed out the mainline stations of Dunton Green and Sevenoaks. So the 413B was instituted, to whisk said commuters to and from Sevenoaks Station in the spartan comfort of a GS. (Brasted and Westerham had the deeper comfort of the Greenline 705 for First Class ticket holders, the 403 for second class). But the season tickets eventually expired, and the replacement bus service was withdrawn towards the end of April after just three months operation.

Dunton Green supplied the GS required, receiving an extra one for the purpose.

GS62 stands outside the now-closed Dunton Green Garage in March 1999.

The 413B has featured in recent Sevenoaks Running Days, often with GS15. Here in 2008 it shows the Sevenoaks (Tubs Hill Station) blind at Chipstead, and the rear Chipstead blind at the (new) Sevenoaks Bus Station.

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