Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway
- Cranbrook and Paddock Wood Railway
After trying to get a railway connection since the earliest days of railway Cranbrook, a market town in the High Weald of Kent, finally got a station on the branch line to Hawkhurst which opened in 1892.
Holman Fred Stephens was resident engineer during its construction and some station buildings characteristic of his light railway projects were erected on it. On this, Stephens' first construction project, he met his long-time colleague and successor, William H Austen. The railway was part of the South Eastern Railway and it and its successors operated it as the Hawkhurst Branch until it was closed in 1961.As an operating railway it was indelibly linked with the hop trade and the mass numbers of hop pickers transported each autumn for the harvest.
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