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The Atlantic and Danville Railway had a 205 mile main line, Norfolk and Danville, in 1951. West Norfolk and Boon was a six mile spur. The train main line had trains that left Norfolk at 10:01 PM and arrived in Danville at 5:45 AM the next day. Then left at Danville at 8:45 PM and arrived in Norfolk at 5:40 AM the next day. [4] Norfolk and Danville
After the Civil War, the railroad grew to become the 3,300-mile (5,300 km) Richmond and Danville Railroad Company System. Placed in receivership in 1892, the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company was sold in 1894 and conveyed into the new Southern Railway Company (later the Norfolk Southern Railway) in 1896 and 1897.
Atlantic and Danville Railway: AD N&W: 1882 1962 Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway: Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad: N&W: 1870 1881 Norfolk and Western Railroad: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: B&O, BO B&O 1867 1987 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Baltimore and Potomac Railroad: PRR: 1890 1891 Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore ...
Durham and South Carolina Railroad: Norfolk and Carolina Railroad: ACL: 1889 1900 Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway: NFD N&W: 1962 1983 Norfolk and Western Railway: Norfolk, Lynchburg and Durham Railroad: N&W: 1896 1896 Norfolk and Western Railroad: Norfolk, Roanoke and Southern Railroad: N&W: 1896 1896 ...
December 30: The Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway (not Class I), successor to the Atlantic and Danville Railway, merges into parent Norfolk and Western Railway. [30] December 31: The Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad (no longer Class I) merges into parent Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. [12] 1984
The Commonwealth Railway, Inc. (reporting mark CWRY) is a United States Class III short-line railroad operating 27 miles (43 km) of track of a former Norfolk, Franklin and Danville Railway line from Suffolk, Virginia, to Portsmouth, Virginia. The main office is in the Wilroy area of Suffolk.
Algernon Sidney Buford [4] (January 2, 1826 – May 6, 1911) was a Virginian businessman, politician, and lawyer best known for his 22-year presidency of the Richmond and Danville Railroad, during which he was responsible for growing the line from 140 miles in length to 3,000 miles in length.
The reason for the demolishment of the 14th Street Passenger depot was that the Southern Railway needed the additional space for freight. [3] [4] The new 14th Street freight depot continued to serve the Southern until the 1980s when the railroad merged with the Norfolk and Western Railway to create the Norfolk Southern Railway. At this point ...