*1957 acquired by Norfolk Southern Railroad. Leased by NS for 99 years in 1920.

Was the New Hope Valley Railroad.

The original charter of the New Hope Valley Railroad authorized the owners to build a railroad from a point near New Hill, NC on the Raleigh & Augusta Air Line Railroad. This place was later named Bonsal, NC in honor of the first president of the company. The northern end of the railroad was set in the charter as a point in Orange County near Chapel Hill, NC. This was probably the village of West End, now the town of Carrboro, NC where a market dealing in railroad ties had already existed for some years. Seven strips of one-hundred foot wide right-of-way were purchased in Chatham County for the railroad, but no track was ever laid by the NHV.

On 20 January 1905, the partners chartered another company, called the Durham & South Carolina Railroad, to build a railroad from Durham, NC at a place called Keene (now the junction of Fayetteville and Riddle Roads in south Durham) to an unnamed point in South Carolina. They then sold the NHVRR to the new company on 7 April 1905, and began grading the right-of-way and laying track. The D&SC completed the thirty-one miles of railroad from Bonsal to Durham on 15 October 1906.

The line was extended to the south ten miles from Bonsal to Duncan, NC in 1911, to a connection with the original Norfolk Southern Railroad. This included the communities of Burt and Rogers Store as stations along the railroad.

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Towns on Route:

Durham

East Durham

Morrisville

Apex

New Hill

Merry Oaks

Haywood

Moncure