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The Hamlet Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in North Carolina and South Carolina. The line runs from Hamlet, North Carolina, to Columbia, South Carolina, for a total of 105.2 miles. At its north end it continues south from the Hamlet Terminal Subdivision and at its south end it continues south as the Columbia Subdivision.[1][2]
The Hamlet Subdivision runs along CSX's S Line. The line notably carries Amtrak's Silver Star which travels from New York to Florida.
History[edit]
From Columbia north to Camden, the line was built by the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad as an extension of the South Bound Railroad in the late 1890s.[3]
From Camden to Cheraw, the line was built by the Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad, which was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1899.[4]
From Cheraw to Hamlet, the line was built by the Palmetto Railroad, which was completed in 1887.[5]
The Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad, the Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad, and the Palmetto Railroad all became part of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1900. The unified line became a segment of the Seaboard main line. The Seaboard Air Line designated this segment of the main line as the Hamlet Subdivision, which it is still known as today.[6] Seaboard would eventually become CSX by the 1980s.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "HA-Hamlet Sub - The RadioReference Wiki". wiki.radioreference.com. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
- ^ CSX Florence Division Timetable
- ^ South Carolina Railroads, South Bound Railroad
- ^ WikiProject Trains, ICC valuations, Seaboard Air Line Railway
- ^ Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina, Volume 1, 1892, page 529
- ^ "CSX Florence Division Timetable" (PDF). Multimodalways.org. Retrieved 2016-11-16.