1907 - Union Station at Norton

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Union Station at Norton

Norton, Va. March 1, 1907 - The most important item hereabouts is the 
assurance of a new union passenger station to be built here in the 
very near future. The Norfolk and Western and the Louisville and 
Nashville railroads meet here, the travel is quite heavy, and at 
present the accommodations wholly inadequate. But we are assured by a 
high official of the Norfolk and Western, over his own signature, 
that we will have ample accommodations in a new well-equipped depot 
in a short time.
    Mr. D. B. Wentz, president of the Stonega Coal and Coke Company 
was in town recently, and gave the assurance that the Interstate 
railroad, from Stonega, by way of Appalachia and Blackwood, would be 
finished into Norton the coming summer. He also stated that this 
would give us a Southern connection, from which we infer that it will 
be operated in connection with the Virginia and Southwestern, now a 
part of the Southern railway system.
    It is learned from official sources that he Southern will also 
take up the Wise Terminal railroad, leading north from Norton to 
Glamorgan, about seven miles. If these things materialize Norton will 
be a center for five or six railroads -- already being the terminus of four.



Ron Davis