Passenger service on the Durham District

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Gordon,
 
Thank you for the update on the last days of the mixed train service in the  
Durham District.  I will search the microfilm of the old newspapers in the  
Durham and Roxboro Libraries to see if N&W announced the end of the  passenger 
service along the line or if it quietly slipped away after 67  years.
 
Do you know if the RS-3s that were being tried out in the Durham District  
were used for this service?
 
Thanks. 
Chuck Stewart
 
In a message dated 11/15/04 11:11:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Refering to operating timetable in the NWHS archives, Norfolk  Division 
timetable No. 11 effective April 28, 1957, shows mixed  train service between 
Lynchburg and Durham provided by First Class trains  Nos. 71 and 72.  Timetable No. 
12 effective January 1, 1958, shows Nos.  71 and 72 as Fourth Class trains, 
i.e., no longer providing mixed train  service.  Because there was no 
supplement pasted in Timetable No. 11 to  indicate any changes to it, it appears that 
the mixed train service was  terminated just before Timetable No. 12 was 
effective, in other words, at the  end of 1957.
 
Gordon Hamilton
 



 
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