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There is a small wooden office building here. I am not sure about its reason for being. The London Transport Museum website shows a more recent photograph of it taken before it disappeared. It says that it is an old booking office. I very much doubt that. There was already a booking office on the opposite side of the bridge. There was no access to the platform from this side of the road and there was no need at all for a secondary office. Perhaps it was a coal merchant's office or a tobacconists kiosk .
This office hut remained in situ long after the rebuilding of Rayners Lane station in 1938. It was still there in the 1980s. It was by then in a dilapidated condition and had at some time been used by a local scout group for storage.
The larger white hut next to it in the photograph has the appearance of an estate sales office of the type that appeared next to stations in areas that were being developed for housing. (A more long-lived example of such survives next to Moor Park station.)
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