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The Purdue Station on the Brighthope Railway shown here in 2016 at 12702 Beach Road in Chesterfield, Virginia Fendley Station remodeled into a Park Office Skinquarter Train Depot on the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad in 1891 Railroad Depot, Beach Station, Chesterfield, Virginia. The Farmville and Powhatan was a ninety three mile line after the ...
Farmville Belt Line (sometimes pronounced Farmville Beltline, later known as Burkeville–Pamplin Belt Line and Burkeville–Pamplin Low Grade Line)- a former Norfolk and Western rail line, created from the Norfolk and Western main line. [21] Wheeling District- a former Norfolk and Western rail line. [36]
Farmville station in August 1983. The Southside Railroad was built through Farmville in 1857; stations at Farmville were served for over a century. When Amtrak took over intercity passenger rail service on May 1, 1971, it chose not to continue service on the Norfolk and Western Railway's Pocahontas, thus ending service to Farmville.
The Farmville Coal and Iron Company built a one and a half mile spur rail line from the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad to the mine. This railroad provided transport from the mine to the docks at Bermuda Hundred in the Tidewater region. On Jan. 24, 1891, an editor of “The Financial Mining Record” suggested that the Farmville Coal & Iron ...
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In 1890, the Canal would have had competition with the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad which competed with the Southside Railroad. The Farmville and Powhatan was connected all the way to Bermuda Hundred on the James River and Chester, Virginia, just north of Petersburg, in 1891. The railroad was narrow gauge but could provide transportation for ...
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Appomattox Railroad: N&W: 1847 1854 Southside Railroad: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad: ACL ACL 1898 1967 Seaboard Coast Line Railroad: 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 ...