South Carolina Railroads - Green Pond, Walterboro & Branchville Railroad

Acronym

Year Chartered or Incorporated

Year Line Operational

Year Service Ended

Original Starting Point

Original Ending Point

GPW&B RR

unknown

1887

1900*

Green Pond, SC

Walterboro, SC


*1900 merged with the Walterborough & Western Railroad to form the Green Pond, Walterborough & Branchville Railroad.

In 1887 the Green Pond, Walterboro and Branchville Railway opened as a short branch, off the main line of the Charleston & Savannah Railway, to Walterboro, South Carolina. Both the GP&W and the C&S were owned and operated by Plant System.

The Plant System was a system of railroads and steamboats in the South, taken over by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1902. The original line of the system, named after its owner, Henry B. Plant, was the Savannah, Florida & Western Railway, running across southern Georgia.


Towns on Route:

Green Pond

Walterboro



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