Based in the Weald of Kent, the Castle Hill Light Railway started life like most narrow gauge light railways - industry needed to move it goods further afield and being based too far from the nearest Southern Region station, a transport solution was needed!
So when the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Railway opened in 1893, the local industries of Brenchley & Matfield felt they had been left out so started to look at ways of establishing a train link to their industries. Soon a plan was hatched to link these villages to the network via a narrow gauge railway - the connection being made at Churn Siding on the C&PWR at a connection station called Junction.
More history to come.......
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