North Carolina Railroads - Suffolk & Carolina Railway




North Carolina Railroads - Suffolk & Carolina Railway

Acronym	Year Chartered or Incorporated	Year Line Operational	Year Service Ended	Original Starting Point	Original Ending Point
S&C RR	1885	1902	1906*	Suffolk, VA	Edenton, NC

*1906 renamed to the Virginia & Carolina Coast Railroad. Between 1885 and 1902, the Suffolk & Carolina Railway, a narrow gauge railroad, was built from Suffolk, VA through Whaleyville south to Edenton, NC. A branch line extended from Beckford Junction (on the Suffolk-Edenton section) to Elizabeth City, NC. From a December 31, 1902 article in the New York Times: Baltimore, Md., Dec. 30. - The Suffolk and Carolina Railway Company has declared a stock dividend of 100 per cent, for the year 1902. The present capital stock of the company is $400,000. This railroad is entirely owned by Baltimore capitalists and runs from Suffolk, Va., to Edenton, N.C., on the Chowan River, a tributary of Albemarle Sound. An extension now being built will carry the road to Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River.

Towns on Route (in NC): NC/VA State Line Corapeake (1885) Savage (1904) Sunbury Bosley (1887) Trotville (1894) Hobbsville (1888) Gliden (1885) Ryland (1888) Tulu (1903) Amboy (1890) Tyner Chowan > Woodley (1888) Cisco (1891) Rockyhock Edenton