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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 ...
Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
The history of the Southern Railway can be traced back to the Madras Railway. In 1832, the proposal to construct the first railway line in India at Madras was made by the British . [ 3 ] In 1835, the railway track was constructed between Little Mount and Chintadripet in Madras and became operational in 1837. [ 4 ]
The 1871 Southern Railway building. The Southern Railway was created in 1894 when railroad financiers J.P. Morgan & Co. oversaw the reorganization of two struggling lines, the Richmond & Danville and the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia. [5]
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.It linked London with the Channel ports, South West England, South coast resorts and Kent.
The railway was previously called Oneonta Street Railway (1888-1897), Oneonta & Otego Valley Railroad (1897-1900), Oneonta, Cooperstown & Richfield Springs Railway (1900-1906), Oneonta & Mohawk Valley Railway (1906-1908), Otsego & Herkimer Railroad (1908-1916), Southern New York Power & Railway Co. (1916-1924), and Southern New York Railroad ...
The Cincinnati Southern Railway was promoted as "a source of a large and steady income" for the city in a 1977 history. Rents rise from $1 million to at least $20 million a year
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.