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10410 Beach Road, Chesterfield, VA U.S.A. Owned by: George Perdue: Line(s) Main: Distance: 70 miles from Farmville, Va. Tracks: 1: Train operators: Farmville and Powhatan Railroad and Tidewater and Western Railroad: Construction; Structure type: with a railroad depot, some railroad shanties, a general store and the owner's house. History ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
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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.