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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 ...
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 ...
Farmville station was an intercity rail station located in Farmville, Virginia. It was served by Norfolk and Western Railway passenger trains until around 1971. It was later served by Amtrak 's Mountaineer from 1975 to 1977, then the Hilltopper until 1979.
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 ...
Retaining the 0.3% grade of the original rail line, [10] the corridor features picnic, parking and toilet facilities as well as large oak trees, telegraph poles erected in the 1900s, remnants of the railroad's signal system, and Norfolk Southern's original cement mile markers. [11] Park rangers and local police monitor the trail daily.
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