Norfolk Terminal Station | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Photo of the station c. 1914 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 36°50′37″N 76°16′34″W / 36.843475°N 76.276117°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Norfolk and Western Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway, Virginian Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1962 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1963 | demolished | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Norfolk Terminal Station was a railroad union station located in Norfolk, Virginia, which served passenger trains and provided offices for the Norfolk and Western Railway, the original Norfolk Southern Railway (a regional carrier in Virginia and North Carolina which became part of and later lent its name to the much larger company known as Norfolk Southern in the 1980s) and the Virginian Railway. The N&W, Norfolk Southern, and Virginian's Norfolk terminal location stood in contrast to competitor railroads, such as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Southern Railway, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad which operated out of Cape Charles (Virginia), Newport News and Portsmouth, terminals outside of Norfolk.[1] Customers took ferries or, later in the 20th century, buses from Norfolk to reach those other terminals.[2] The terminal was located at 1200 East Main Street in Norfolk,[3] near today's Harbor Park baseball stadium.
- ^ Official Guide of the Railways, 1949 edition index
- ^ "1916 New City Map of Norfolk, Portsmouth and Vicinity, Virginia". smcdigital.norfolkpubliclibrary.org. Retrieved 2020-08-13.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Norfolk Terminal Railway Building, 1931 - Norfolk, Virginia". smcdigital.norfolkpubliclibrary.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-12. Retrieved 2020-08-13.