Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad
The Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad was a railroad company in North Carolina ( United States ). It operated a small network 180 kilometers in length, 160 kilometers of which it owned itself, and was headquartered in Aberdeen .
Railway lines
- Aberdeen – Asheboro railway (90 km)
- West End – Jackson Springs Railway (6.5 km; freight only)
- Railway line Candor - Ellerbe (28 km)
- Biscoe – Mount Gilead railway line (35.5 km; Biscoe – Troy (12 km) closed in 1911)
- Star – Troy railway line (12 km; opened in 1911)
- Pinehurst – Carthage railway line (20 km; leased from the Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad )
history
The railway company was founded in 1907 as a merger of the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railway and the Jackson Springs Railroad . It was owned by the Page family and Henry A. Page was president of the railway .
It also leased the Carthage and Pinehurst Railroad for 15 years from October 1 of the same year and operated its railroad as a branch. On June 30, 1910, it opened the Candor - Ellerbe line . On January 1, 1911, the section from Biscoe to Troy was closed and replaced by a line from Star to Troy, as the line to Mount Gilead was to be converted into a main line and extended in both directions. This happened in the following years, but no longer through Aberdeen & Asheboro. The trains to Mount Gilead initially continued to run to and from Biscoe and Aberdeen, but now had to turn heads in Star .
In February 1912, the railway company merged with some other companies to form Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern Railroad , which was taken over by the Norfolk Southern Railroad that same year . Today, the Aberdeen to Star and Star to Mount Gilead routes continue to exist, the latter as part of the Gulf to Charlotte route . Both lines are operated by the Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway .
passenger traffic
According to the timetable of January 1, 1911, one pair of trains ran on weekdays from Aberdeen to Asheboro, Mount Gilead and Carthage, plus three pairs of trains between Aberdeen and Pinehurst, one pair of trains between Biscoe and Star, one between Biscoe and Mount Gilead, one between Pinehurst and Carthage and two pairs of trains from Candor to Ellerbe. On Sundays, only four pairs of trains drove on the approximately 10 km long section Aberdeen – Pinehurst, on the remaining sections of the line the passenger traffic was idle.
Sources and further information
- Individual proof
- ↑ a b Timetable of January 1, 1911, printed in the Official Guide of the Railways, July 1911 edition, page 979.
- literature
- Poor's Manual of Railroads, years 1910 and 1911.