Shut down in 1961. Line from Sanford towards Broadway still operational.

The Atlantic & Western Railroad was incorporated March 7, 1899, to build from Sanford to Goldsboro, seventy miles away, and points beyond. It was opened from Sanford to Broadway in 1905, and to Lillington in April 1913, totalling twenty-five miles. The line extended from Sanford through Jonesboro, Purnell, Winder, Campbells, Broadway, Seminole, Ryes, Arlington, Mamers, Monticello, Luart, Summerville, and into Lillington. On December 15, 1961, the section from Jonesboro to Lillington was abandoned, a total of twenty-two miles.

Towns on Route:

Sanford

Jonesboro

Broadway

Mamers (1914)

Lillington