 The railway company took over the War Department locomotive (assigning it to the Permanent Way Department) and also the War Department Line, using it for freight-only services, transporting shingle to Hythe where it was transferred to road transport.As a freight-only service, the War Department halt may be said to have closed at the end of the war, as passengers no longer alighted at this location.However, freight-only traffic continued on the line until 1951.