1907 - Great Lakes To Norfolk

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Tom:
 
With reference to passenger stations at Norfolk  --  the
1909 entry for The Official Guide shows the  station to
be at Main Street.  This was NOT Terminal  Station, which
opened on May 31, 1912, but was told that it was on  the
west side of the Terminal Building.  For a  time,  there had
been a temporary station at Park Street.   The railroad may 
have shared facilities with Norfolk & Southern.   N&S had a 
rather circuitous  route into Norfolk before the Virginian.  It
left the main line at Providence Junction (near  today's
Greenbrier Mall),  took a tack to the north  through 
Kempsville,  connected with the South Route at  Clapham
Junction (Euclid) and ran west to Park  Street.   After the
Virginian was constructed, N&S passenger  trains operated
thru to Carolina Junction,  transferred to  Virginian Railway  on
trackage rights to Tidewater, then resumed  the trip to
Norfolk on its own rails.
                                                                    Harry 
Bundy
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