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In 1992 N&W's successor Norfolk Southern moved into a new office building in Downtown Roanoke and donated the former offices to a nonprofit foundation. [5] The two wings comprising GOB–South were converted to upscale apartments in 2002, [ 5 ] while GOB–North is the home of the Roanoke Higher Education Center. [ 6 ]
The Norfolk and Western Railroad Historic District encompasses an historic industrial district of Norfolk, Virginia.Centered on the tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railroad between Bowden's Ferry Road and Monticello Avenue, it extends as much as three blocks north and south of the tracks, including within its bounds most of the industrial resources found in that area.
The Norfolk Orbital Railway is a proposal to link the Mid-Norfolk Railway and the North Norfolk Railway to create a line running from Sheringham to Wymondham, restoring regular services to Fakenham and Melton Constable. [4] In 2008 Hunstanton Council considered a proposal to re-open the line from King's Lynn, but decided against it. [5]
Opened in January 2004, the museum is housed in a former Norfolk & Western Railway passenger train station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. Originally built in 1905, the building was renovated in 1949 by industrial designer Raymond Loewy , and is one of three contributing structures to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District ...
Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948. The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), [1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.
Robert Forsythe started to collect railway timetables in 1971, and the earliest letters establishing this collection survive at the Norfolk Record Office. [1] Both of those historic collections remain part of the Forsythe Collection. As Robert Forsythe pursued a career as a museum curator, he married Fiona Forsythe, a librarian.
The Norfolk Railway was an early railway company that controlled a network of 94 miles around Norwich, England. It was formed in 1845 by the amalgamation of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway opened in 1844, and the Norwich and Brandon Railway , not yet opened.