Where were the "other" depots along the James River?

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In response to Bob Cohen's  message about the Orange & Alexandria  Railroad 
reaching Lynchburg, both Christian's and Chambers' books state that the  
O&A reached the Amherst County side of the James River and began operations  
on January 14, 1860. Until a bridge was built over the James, Chambers says  
coaches transported passengers along Rover Road, then across the covered and 
 wooden Ninth Street bridge to the Lynchburg side and the existing station  
of the V&T. Later that year an O&A bridge over the James was  completed and 
service commenced. However, a freshet in 1871 washed away bridges  of both 
the O&A and Southside. 
 
The Orange & Alexandria established a yard on the Lynchburg side of the  
river. Although I can not find the source at this minute, I have read in a 
Civil  War publication of the inconvenience and time consuming process by which 
 the trucks of  freight cars of different gauges were traded at the O&A  
yard.  The O&A was 4' 8-1/2" gauge while the V&T was 5'  gauge. Freight and 
passengers had to be hauled by wagon to the Southside  depot on Percival's 
Island.  Remember in an earlier message I described  there was not a physical 
connection between the V&T and Southside until  1870. 
 
Aubrey Wiley
"Our stories give our lives meaning."  Rudyard Kipling, 1928
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