SIR MYLES FENTON
1830-1918
OFFICE BOY & GENERAL MANAGER
Born in the Lake District town of Kendal in 1830. His mother Elizabeth was a postmistress.
Myles began his career, aged 15, on the Kendal and Windermere railway in 1845, criss-crossing the
country for various Railway Companies in various capacities. In 1863 he became General Manager of the
Metropolitan and in 1880 the Great Eastern Railway. His CV lists many high powered roles on boards and
trusts. He was knighted by Queen Victoria and made a Justice of the Peace, and Lieut. Col. of the Engineer
and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps.
It wasn’t until the age of 53 that he married. In 1883 the widow Charlotte Jane Collins became his wife and
they moved to a country estate in South Nutfield, Surrey. He announced in the press that Nutfield’s new
station would be opened for traffic on 1 January 1884. They eventually moved back into town, to Redstone
Hall, overlooking an engine shed at Redhill junction.
He retired in 1906 aged 76, and died in 1918, aged 87. Redstone Hall was demolished in the 1930s and
became Fenton Road
