Only a memory! N&W Forest, Va. Station leveled.

Wed Apr 4 09:29:46 EDT 2018

Jeff

I’ve studied this one a fair amount, and have come up with no absolute definitive answer. 

In annual report No. 11, for the year ending June 30, 1907, it reports:

Passenger Stations and freight depots were built or enlarged at Luray, Williamson, Ironton, Colley Avenue, Norfolk; Church Road, Rice, Prospect, Winfall, Brookneal, Helena, Forest, Lowry, Rileyville, Boones Mill, Ferrum, Price, Stoneville, Walkertown, Chilhowie, Meadow View, Ainwick, Chattaroy, Peebles, Sardinia and Glen Jean.

Now, nothing is reported after that initial thing, but the design of Forest is what I call the 1914 standard from Standards Drawing L - 295, issued June 1914.

From the N&WHS archives, it seems the depot was originally on the south side of the tracks in this drawing from 1899:
http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=155903

From this drawing, the shape of the station is opposite of what was there, dated 1908. I have no idea of where the overhead bridge compares to today, I’m kind of assuming that it was a just east of the depot, but there appears to be virtually no trace of it today.

http://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=153640

I assume it is possible that the station burned sometime between 1907 and 1917 and was replaced with the newer design, but usually those things were reported in the Annual Report in those days.

Ken Miller

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> Can anyone confirm what year the Forest station was built?
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