The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-07-23
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AM immensely scrviceablc Spur
Track OH Southern at Granite
Is Proposed. $5 s 3s
4 ! RI WOULD DASH BY
Passengers for Richmond Would
% be Transferred Route Of
Detotlr Established.

The Southern Railway & Is considering
the construction Of link connecting
Stheirsllne with the belt line near Granite.
in Chesterfield county, whereby the dis
stance that Southern Railway trains go
Ing southwark from Washington over.
the 1Rlchmond-Wa Washington linc will have
to cover In reaching the main llnessof
the road from this city to Danvllle will
be reduced abou t eleven miles, and n
saving III time of handling trains over
this route of about three hours will be
effected. @ e II IA
The protect calls for the construction
OF only about half a mile Of track, so
as to form a ~, connecting the belt
line track with the Southern's Richmond
and sDanyillo track at Granite. BY. the
onstruct ion. and opera ion8o Of this Il links
the Southern Hallway would ave ID y tho
necessity Of detouring It's trains from
Acca. i lust west B of this city, yiq. the.
tbeixss ifiess to the south side Of the sriver
and sbX aacircultous route to Clopton, sta-5
ton, ssons tlle Il, Atlantic Coast Line, and
sthences BY the Coast Line to tho Southern
Railway tracks. ~ II a n Il s. b s K
I Engineers have surveyed the proposed
5linksfan reported on the topographical
and construction problems, and the build
ling of the link is now under considern-s
{ ton. In 81 the event Off It's construction
the Sou thern;s through Florida trains
would Il be dotoured from, Acca via the
beltflinn, to Granite, and there sent south
ward over the Richmond and Danvilles
line, without coming into this city It
WOULD mean that this route might be
Used whenever necessary to dctoir
freight or passeng GER trains. in the event
the Virginia Midland line via. Lynchburg
&to Danvllel lis blocked ishort,it would
offer an alternative route for all South
iernS trains between the South and wa $ h.
Eington. @ " 81 II 35 81,
Plan Of Relief.
NJ NJ The plan lin brief is TO build q spur
from the belt line to. the Southern lea =
Granite. less than half a mile ofstrark
being necessary to make the Connection
thus saving the detour from and ny IN he.
beltpline u to Clopton and thence -. he
Southern tracks IN Manchester I'M the i
event Of the, building OF this line. the
through passenger trains from Washing
ton would not core into this cit a q t.
all. "a Whenever there are passengers
from this citYsfor The far Southson hese$
through trains, hey would be taken from
this Icity$to Granite and there transfer
red to the through train, or when there
arc passengers from the North to this
city, they would come from Acca into,
the local station of the Southern T he
foot of Fourteenth Street by mems of
AN engine and one Goa CHI. M 3ss S@s u B
I'm IL Is said that about three h OH rs 2 re
$cpnslmed In transferring the tferll'a
Through trains from the! North from he I
$Richmond.Was hington line, via the belt
line, and thence to the Southern tracks 4
on.The south side of the river. Some
times 1t takes as much as five hours
TO get from boswell, on the Richmo nd
washington air line, ia the Southern
Il tracks, and at all times @ the Southern
$trainsmlght 20 from this city to Burke
viii e In the time lost in making this cir IT.
Scuitous transfer, III i5S