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The Southern Railway Building in Washington, D.C., formerly located at Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street NW in the early 1900s An 1895 system map A 1921 system map. The pioneering South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, Southern's earliest predecessor line and one of the first railroads in the United States, was chartered on December 19, 1827, and ran the nation's first regularly ...
1951: Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, the South Indian Railway Company, and the Mysore State Railway were united to form a new zone of the Southern Railway. 24-12-1952 Ernakulam - Kollam MG line - turning of first sod by Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India. 16-05-1956 Formation of Divisions in Southern Railway; 23-08-1957 ...
1850s: Renamed the Pennsylvania Central Railway. 1850: Construction begins on Altoona Works repair shop at Altoona, Pennsylvania. 1857: The Main Line of Public Works of Pennsylvania purchased. 1865: First US railroad to use steel rails. [12] 1868: The Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway is formed and controlled by the Pennsy.
Southern Railway – Carolina Division: Carolina Northern Railroad: SAL: 1899 1905 Raleigh and Charleston Railroad: Carolina and Northwestern Railway: CRN SOU: 1982 1988 Southern Railway: Carolina and Northwestern Railway: CR&N SOU: 1900 1974 Norfolk Southern Railway: Carolina Western Railroad: CARW 1923 1971 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad ...
The new train's popularity was not enough to prevent the R&D from being forced into receivership in 1892. Two years later, the R&D merged with five other railroads to form the Southern Railway Company. Under Southern ownership, the train was initially called the Washington & Southwestern Limited southbound, and the New York Limited northbound.
A former Southern Railway depot in Bryson City, North Carolina, now serving as the main headquarter of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR). The Murphy Branch is a branch line operated by the Western North Carolina Railroad, later the Richmond and Danville, Southern Railway, the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and today the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad.
Poor ventilation from small windows made the "Tavern Cars" unpopular amongst the travelling public, with several being converted to ordinary use during the 1950s. [80] The Southern Railway was the only one of the "Big Four" British railway companies that did not operate sleeping cars other than those brought in from the continent on the 'Night ...
Southern Railway: SOU SOU 1894 1990 Norfolk Southern Railway: Southside Railroad: N&W: 1846 1871 Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad: Straight-Shoot Railroad: C&O: 1873 1878 Richmond and Alleghany Railroad: Suffolk and Carolina Railway: NS: 1884 1906 Norfolk and Southern Railway: Sulphur Mines Railroad: C&O: 1884 Surry, Sussex and ...