Benfleet Railway

The new booking office

Passengers at the ticket office at Benfleet station, Essex, 1 February 1962.

Science and Society Picture Library

This photograph shows a young Julie Jones with her 2 brothers Michael and Stephen, queuing at the newly built booking office at Benfleet station. They were going up to London with their grandparents to visit Gammages shop and to see the Christmas lights in 1961.

The photograph appeared in the magazine in the New Year hence the date of the picture