Hamlet Subdivision

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Hamlet Subdivision
Legend
CSX
S 254.2
South Hamlet
North Carolina
South Carolina
S 269.3
Wallace
S 271.8
Cheraw
S 284.9
Patrick
S 292.0
Middendorf
Robinson Spur
S 299.3
McBee
S 307.0
Bethune
S 312.6
Cassatt
S 326.5
Camden Amtrak
S 330.3
Lugoff
S 339.0
Elgin
Norfolk Southern Railway
B Line
Norfolk Southern Railway
W Line
S 358.5
Elmwood Junction
CSX
CSX
Historic Seaboard Air Line Railway Depot in Patrick on the Hamlet Subdivision

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[]

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. Seaboard would eventually become CSX by the 1980s.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "HA-Hamlet Sub - The RadioReference Wiki". wiki.radioreference.com. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
  2. ^ CSX Florence Division Timetable
  3. ^ South Carolina Railroads, South Bound Railroad
  4. ^ WikiProject Trains, ICC valuations, Seaboard Air Line Railway
  5. ^ Annual report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of North Carolina, Volume 1, 1892, page 529
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