Aberdeen and Asheboro Railway

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The Aberdeen and Asheboro Railway was a railway company in North Carolina ( United States ). It operated a small network of around 132 kilometers in length and was headquartered in Aberdeen .

Railway lines

history

The railway company was formed in 1897 as a merger of the Aberdeen and West End Railroad and the Asheboro and Montgomery Railroad . It was owned by the Page family, and the railroad's president was AF Page and later JR Page. At that time, the network of the railway consisted only of the main line from Aberdeen via Star to Asheboro and a twelve kilometer branch line from Biscoe to Troy . This branch line was extended on January 1, 1899 by 14 miles to Mount Gilead . The lines had the usual 4¾ foot (1448 mm) gauge at the time in the southeastern United States. Around 1906/07, the gauge was officially redefined to standard gauge (1435 mm). An actual gauge change did not take place because the gauge was still within the tolerance range, but then in the course of track repairs the rails were only installed in standard gauge.

In 1907 the railway company merged with the Jackson Springs Railroad, founded on October 1, 1900, to form the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railroad . The Jackson Springs Railroad owned an approximately six and a half kilometer long branch line from the West End to Jackson Springs, the management of which had been incumbent on the Aberdeen & Asheboro from the beginning and which only served the freight traffic. Today the network continues to operate the routes from Aberdeen to Star and from Troy to Mount Gilead, the latter now as part of the route from Gulf to Charlotte . Both lines are operated by the Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway .

passenger traffic

According to the timetable of November 15, 1905, the railway company operated a passenger train and a mixed train from Aberdeen to Asheboro on weekdays. The passenger train took two and a half hours for the entire route, the mixed train just under six hours. Another pair of trains ran from Aberdeen to Biscoe and two pairs of trains ran the branch from Biscoe to Mount Gilead. There were also four daily train pairs from Aberdeen to Pinehurst.

Sources and further information

Individual proof
  1. ^ Poor's Manual of the Railroads 1897, page 155.
  2. ↑ Timetable of November 15, 1905, printed in the Official Guide of the Railways, September 1906 edition, page 484.
literature
  • Poor's Manual of Railroads, years 1892 to 1910.