Hamlet Subdivision

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CSX S Line (Hamlet Terminal Subdivision) S 254.2 South Hamlet North Carolina South Carolina S 269.3 Wallace Pee Dee River S 271.8 Cheraw S 284.9 Patrick S 292.0 Middendorf Robinson Spur S 299.3 McBee Lynches River S 307.0 Bethune S 312.6 Cassatt S 326.5 Camden Wateree River S 330.3 Lugoff S 339.0 Elgin Norfolk Southern Railway B Line Norfolk Southern Railway W Line S 358.5 Elmwood Junction CSX CN&L Subdivision CSX S Line (Columbia Subdivision)

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[]

• List of CSX Transportation lines

References[]