Aberdeen and West End Railroad
The Aberdeen and West End Railroad was a railway company in North Carolina ( United States ). It operated a small network 108 kilometers in length and had its headquarters in Aberdeen .
Railway lines
- Aberdeen – Asheboro railway (90 km)
- Biscoe – Troy railway line (12 km)
- West End – Little River Railway (6 km; freight only)
history
The railway company was founded on October 21, 1889 and took over a non-public forest railway that opened in the 1880s and ran north from Aberdeen. It was owned by the Page family and AF Page was president of the railway. In 1893 the line became a public railway with passenger traffic. At that time it led from Aberdeen to Candor . The railway had the usual gauge of 4 feet (1448 mm) at that time in the southeastern United States.
In 1893, a six-kilometer branch line from the West End to the Little River went into operation, which was shut down again in 1895 and was only used for logging. Also in 1895 the main line to Star was extended and a branch line from Biscoe to Troy was opened. The Asheboro and Montgomery Railroad , founded in April 1896, had a concession for a route from Asheboro to Star. The Page family bought this company and built the line as a northern extension of their main line, which went into operation on October 1, 1896.
In 1897 the two railway companies merged to form the Aberdeen and Asheboro Railway . Today the Aberdeen to Star line still exists, operated by the Aberdeen, Carolina and Western Railway .
Sources and further information
- Individual proof
- ^ Poor's Manual of the Railroads 1897, page 155.
- literature
- Poor's Manual of Railroads, years 1892 to 1898.