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The Hawkhurst Branch Line was a short railway line in Kent that connected Hawkhurst Cranbrook Goudhurst and Horsmonden with the town of Paddock Wood and the South Eastern and Medway Valley lines a distance of 11 miles 24 chains (18.19 km).The line was promoted by the Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway (C&PWR) which was incorporated in 1877 but took until 1892 to open the first section of the line to Hope Mill. Services were worked by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR).