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The Hayfield Branch was a 2+1⁄2-mile (4 km) single-track branch line that ran along the Sett Valley from the Hope Valley Line near New Mills Central to Hayfield, via one intermediate stop, Birch Vale. It passed under the town of New Mills through the 180 m (200 yd) rock-cut Hayfield tunnel.