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Norfolk Terminal Station

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With the decline of passenger rail travel, and the merger of the Virginian Railway into the Norfolk and Western in 1959, the station closed in 1962 and was demolished in 1963. A contract for the demolition was awarded to ABC Demolition, of Arlington, Virginia, for an undisclosed price. Passenger
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Norfolk Terminal Station was built following destruction by fire of the large wooden N&W passenger station on October 13, 1909. After a sharing agreement was reached and a terminal operating company were formed, the new brick building was opened in 1912. Offices of all three tenant railroads
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which operated out of Cape Charles (Virginia), Newport News and Portsmouth, terminals outside of Norfolk. Customers took ferries or, later in the 20th century, buses from Norfolk to reach those other terminals. The terminal was located at 1200 East Main Street in Norfolk, near today's
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occupied the upper floors, with passenger facilities at the ground level. The General Offices of the Virginian Railway occupied the top three floors whereas N&W General Offices were located in
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Major Norfolk & Western trains and destinations in station's mid-20th Century prime:
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in the vicinity of the former Norfolk Terminal Station.
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Railway stations in the United States closed in 1962
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Railway stations in the United States opened in 1912
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Turin, F.E.; Squires, W.H.T.; Bennett, M.E. (1936).
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36°50′37″N 76°16′34″W / 36.843475°N 76.276117°W / 36.843475; -76.276117
Norfolk and Western Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway
Virginian Railway
Norfolk and Western Railway
Suffolk
Cincinnati
Virginian Railway
Sunray
Deepwater
railroad
union station
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk and Western Railway
Norfolk Southern Railway
Norfolk Southern
Virginian Railway
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Southern Railway
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Harbor Park

Roanoke, Virginia
Lambert's Point
Amtrak
Norfolk station
Cavalier

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