South Carolina Railroads - Charleston & Western Carolina Railway




South Carolina Railroads - Charleston & Western Carolina Railway

Acronym	Year Chartered or Incorporated	Year Line Operational	Year Service Ended	Original Starting Point	Original Ending Point
C&WC RR	1896	1896	1897*	Augusta, GA Greenwood, SC McCormick, SC Port Royal, SC	Greenwood, SC Spartanburg, SC Anderson, SC Augusta, GA

*1897 acquired by Atlantic Coast Line of South Carolina. 1896 reorganization of the Port Royal & Western Carolina Railroad assets within South Carolina after the State of South Carolina deemed that the PR&WC RR was an illegal corporation within SC. In 1894, the South Carolina legislature forced the financially ailing Central Railroad of Georgia to give up its railroad properties in South Carolina. These were the Port Royal & Augusta Railway, which ran from the South Carolina coast to Augusta, and the Port Royal & Western Carolina Railway, which linked Augusta with Greenville and several other towns in the South Carolina piedmont. Only about fourteen (14) miles of the two railways were in Georgia, but Georgia was seeing most of the benefit, according to South Carolina. After the Central Railroad was forced out, the Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad was organized, in 1896, to operate the lines. The Atlantic Coast Line of South Carolina gained control of the Charleston & Western Carolina Railroad in the following year. It was not, however, until 1959 that the smaller road was merged into the parent line. Click Here to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History's webpage on one of the Depots on the C&WC.

Towns on Route (in SC): Line #1 - Augusta, GA to Greenwood, SC: SC/NC State Line Wood Lawn Meriwether Clarks Hill Modoc Parksville Plum Branch Cairo McCormick Trickum Troy Mill Way Bradley Verdery Inka Greenwood Line #2 - Greenwood to Spartanburg: Greenwood Quarry Coronaca Waterloo Highpoint > Coldpoint (1903) Madden Laurens Bryson Ora Lanford Station > Lanford (1951) Enoree Hillsville Sancho (1900) Woodruff Switzer Moore Roebuck Arkwright (1898) Spartanburg Line #3 - McCormick to Anderson: McCormick Badwell Bordeaux Link Willington Mount Carmel Hester Calhoun Falls Latimer Lowndesville Moseley > Barnes (1912) Iva (aka Cooks Station) Butlersville Starr Dean Orr Station (1900s) Anderson Line #4 - Port Royal, SC to Augusta, GA: Port Royal Beaufort Burton (1899) Gray Hills (1905) Seabrook Sheldon Tomotley Yemassee Davidson Early Branch McPhersonville Brailsfordville Fechtig (1903) Cummings McNeills Almeda Varnville Hampton Brunson Fairfax Allendale Sieglingville > Sieglinville (1907) Appleton Baldock Martins Millettville > Millett (1951) Averill Hattieville Robbins Ellenton Jackson Bush (1899) Cathwood > Kathwood (1898) Dunbarton Brown Hill (1907) Beech Island SC/GA State Line