North Carolina Railroads - Egypt Railway

Acronym

Year Chartered or Incorporated

Year Line Operational

Year Service Ended

Original Starting Point

Original Ending Point

ERR

1890

1891

1907*

Colon, NC

Cumnock, NC


*1907 in receivership. 1910 reorganized as the Sanford & Troy Railroad.
The Egypt Railroad was chartered June 14, 1890 and opened October 15, 1891 running a short distance from Colon on the Seaboard Air Line Railway main line west to Cumnock. It was leased to the Raleigh & Western Railway, another short line continuing west from Cumnock to Harpers Crossroads, on September 6, 1893. The company entered receivership in 1907 and operations west of Cumnock were suspended in 1908. The Egypt Railroad was reorganized April 1, 1910 as the Sanford and Troy Railroad.


Towns on Route:

Buckner (1891) > Colon (1892)

Egypt Depot > Egypt (1894) > Cumnock (1895)



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