page_title: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic train station in Georgetown, Delaware
context_page_description: The Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Railroad is a defunct American railroad that operated passenger service from Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Franklin City, Virginia. At the latter city, steamship connections could be made to Chincoteague, Virginia on the Atlantic Ocean-side exterior islands. The railroad was built out to Chincoteague Bay for the purpose of transporting oysters and other shellfish to Philadelphia.
  By the 1910s the Pennsylvania Railroad had leased out or purchased the railroad, appearing on the Pennsylvania Railroad tables of the PRR section of the Official Guide of the Railways of North America. By the end of the 1920s the line was among those rail lines throughout the Delmarva Peninsula that the PRR fully acquired.
  The Pennsylvania Railroad passenger trains operated along the route until the late 1940s, stopping at towns just a few miles inland from resort towns on the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula. Frequency along the route dwindled from three trains in each direction at the opening of the 1910s to one train a day in each direction in 1941. The noteworthy towns along the route, south of Wilmington, Delaware consisted of:
context_section_description: The Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Railroad is a defunct American railroad that operated passenger service from Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Franklin City, Virginia. At the latter city, steamship connections could be made to Chincoteague, Virginia on the Atlantic Ocean-side exterior islands. The railroad was built out to Chincoteague Bay for the purpose of transporting oysters and other shellfish to Philadelphia.
  By the 1910s the Pennsylvania Railroad had leased out or purchased the railroad, appearing on the Pennsylvania Railroad tables of the PRR section of the Official Guide of the Railways of North America. By the end of the 1920s the line was among those rail lines throughout the Delmarva Peninsula that the PRR fully acquired.
  The Pennsylvania Railroad passenger trains operated along the route until the late 1940s, stopping at towns just a few miles inland from resort towns on the eastern coast of the Delmarva Peninsula. Frequency along the route dwindled from three trains in each direction at the opening of the 1910s to one train a day in each direction in 1941. The noteworthy towns along the route, south of Wilmington, Delaware consisted of: 
  Harrington, Delaware
  Ellendale
  Georgetown
  Selbyville
  Berlin, Maryland
  Snow Hill, Virginia
  Franklin City
  The railroad had a branch route in southeastern Delaware, that broke off from the above route at Georgetown, and veered east to Lewes, Delaware and then turned south to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. However, service on this branch route was eliminated by 1941. 
  Passenger service on the line was entirely eliminated by 1949. Today, the line is now truncated to Snow Hill, and the properties have been acquired by the Maryland and Delaware Railroad.
caption: The railroad station in Georgetown, Delaware
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